WASHINGTON, PA (May 5, 2016) - Dr. 琼·马卢夫, founder 和 director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, will present a free public lecture Sunday, 5月8日，华盛顿 & 杰佛逊学院&J).
马卢夫 will present “The Healthiest Forest – 生物diversity 和 Old-Growth” at 4 p.m. in Room 100 of the Dieter-Porter Life Sciences Building on the W&J校园. She will discuss the health of Earth’s 森林 和 methods for preventing their decline, as well as results from studies that show why unmanaged 森林 have more biodiversity than managed 森林.
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“These future old-growth 森林 will be our generation's gift to the generations coming after us,”医生说。. 马卢夫. “If we are able to reverse the decline in mature, 本地的, 森林, we will be the first generation to have done so. It is our hope that those who experience the beauty 和 the spirit found in ancient 森林 will be inspired to protect them. When we protect 森林 we also protect biodiversity, clean water, 和 clean air.”
The Old-Growth Forest Network is a nonprofit organization creating a 网work of 森林 across the US that will remain forever unlogged 和 open to the public (www.OldGrowthForest.网). 马卢夫是 Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest, 和 Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests. She is a Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University in Maryl和, where she founded the Environmental Studies program.
Preceeding 马卢夫’s lecture, W&J 生物logy Professor Jason Kilgore will lead a dedication of W&J’s first Heritage Tree, a large American elm, to the W&J校园植物园. The dedication will be held at 3 p.m. in the Salvitti Quad, between the Dieter-Porter Building 和 Swanson Science Center. Parking is located in the lots at the corner of Grant 和 Lincoln streets.
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