[secretagent]

"Old Growth forests" did not exist. They burned. The trees only lived to around 100 years old anyway, before they died of old age.

The diverse forests of the central Cascades of Washington include wet westside forests with Douglas firs up to 800 years old.

Perhaps too wet...

[teeman8r]

a forest's average age is always changing... there are no original old growth forests, for trees die and are continually replaced by younger trees... circle of life and all that...

yes there may be trees that are fortunate to find that place where fire never strikes, the wind doesn't gale and the ground doesn't give, but eventually, the decay out gains the growth ability and old trees die...

one thing is for certain, large trees are a renewable resource and should be harvested and replenished by man...

teeman