Old-growth images - Page 3 of 3

A lumber mill in Paragominas, Brazil, processes timber harvested from old growth forest.

The lumber mills in Paragominas, Brazil (on the Amazon River) are surrounded by mountains of sawdust from the old growth timber they process.

Cattle in pastures that used to be an old-growth forest in the Brazilian Amazon.

Freshly-cut old-growth logs near a village on the Capim River in Brazil.

A “nurse log” in Oregon’s old growth forest nourishes the plants around it as it decays.

A rough-skinned newt rest on a bed of mosses and lichens inthe old-growth rainforest of Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Rough-skinned newts rest on a bed of mosses and lichens in the old-growth rainforest of Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

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