Rent a canoe or book a guided tour and enjoy winding your way down glacial waterways through old growth forests.

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Deserts, old growth forests and lakes are all within easy reach.

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In western Oregon's mature old-growth forests, however, preserving the forests means leaving them alone.

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The notorious spotted owl, which has caused several presidents grief, does not live only in old-growth forests, as was once thought.

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It turned a ramshackle industry, in which old-growth forests were largely quarried for their use in making talon, into an industry in which the trees themselves became the marketable product.

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Logging has increased by 60% in the state since the 1980s, when the timber industry moved its operations over from the Pacific north-west in order to avoid continual warfare over old-growth forests and spotted owls.

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While the story of the world's old-growth forests would appear to be one of unremitting destruction, forests lost to logging and agriculture are actually growing back in some areas, such as the northeast region of the United States and parts of Europe.

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Its fogged-out coast and shadowy, old-growth redwood forests are what happens when Jurassic Park meets Twin Peaks.

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The flaw in their theory was that forests need periodic episodes of destruction to clear out old growth and dead wood so that new, more vigorous growth can flourish.

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