Old-growth forests are often biologically diverse, and home to rare species, threatened species, and endangered species of plants and animals, such as the northern spotted owl, marbled murrelet and fisher, making them ecologically significant.

Old-growth forests are unique, usually having multiple horizontal layers of vegetation representing a variety of tree species, age classes, and sizes, as well as " pit and mound " soil shape with well-established fungal nets.

Old-growth forests were often given harvesting priority because they have the most commercially valuable timber, they are considered to be at greater risk of deterioration through root rot or insect infestation, and they occupy land that could be used for more productive second-growth stands.

Old-growth trees, waterfalls, creeks, cliffs, and wildflower meadows are also located in and around the area.

Old-growth forest contains mainly natural patterns of biodiversity in established seral patterns, and they contain mainly species native to the region and habitat.

Old-growth forests tend to have more large trees and standing dead trees, multi-layered canopies with gaps resulting from the deaths of individual trees, and coarse woody debris on the forest floor.

Old-growth forests totaling have been identified in the Eldorado National Forest, consisting of:

Old-growth forests provide ecosystem services that may be far more important to society than their use as a source of raw materials.

Old-growth forest | Old growth European Beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro.

* Old-growth forests covering.

File: Pinus resinosa, Algoma Highlands PP. jpg | alt = Old-growth red pine, Algoma Highlands, Ontario | Old-growth red pine, Algoma Highlands, Ontario

Old-growth features include diversity of tree-related structures that serve as diversified wildlife habitat that leads to higher bio-diversity of the forested ecosystem.

# Old-growth: Main canopy trees become older and more of them die, creating even more gaps.

* Old-growth forests often contain rich communities of plants and animals within the habitat due to the long period of forest stability.

* Old-growth forest serves as a reservoir for species which cannot thrive or easily regenerate in younger forest, and so can be used as a baseline for research.

Posts cut from old-growth Ashe junipers have been known to last in the ground for more than 50 years.

Over one hundred years ago, most old-growth Ashe junipers were cut and used not only for fence posts, but also for telegraph poles and railroad ties.

Many family surnames noted in the 1800 Ashe County Census, Blevins, Hart, Bare, Stamper, Miller, Burkett, Gambill, Baldwin, and Ballou as a sample, are still present today.

There are 34 recorded creeks and streams that flow into the New River in Ashe County.

They resided in a part of that county which became Ashe County, where they are designated as " other free " in 1800.

Their big break comes when they are stranded in Paris, along with their friend Walter Ashe ( Walter Brennan ), with no money.

Juniperus ashei ( Ashe Juniper, Post Cedar, Mountain Cedar, or Blueberry Juniper ) is a drought-tolerant evergreen shrub or small tree, native to northeastern Mexico and the south-central United States north to southern Missouri ; the largest areas are in central Texas, where extensive stands occur.

The pollen causes a severe allergic reaction for some people in the winter, and people who are allergic to Ashe juniper are also often allergic to the related Juniperus virginiana.

Ashe juniper is sometimes known in the area as " mountain cedar " ( although neither it nor J. virginiana are cedars ), and some locals refer to the allergy as cedar fever.

Ashe County and the cities of Asheville and Asheboro are named in his honor.

The Stingers are composed of egotistical lead singer Riot ( Rory Llewelyn ), guitarist / con artist Rapture ( Phoebe Ashe ), and keyboardist Minx ( Ingrid Kruger ).

The site and the Great Hall are extensive, and the writer Geoffrey Ashe argued in an article in the journal Speculum that it was the base for the Arthur of history.

In descending order of forestland area they are Polk, Monroe, Carter, Unicoi, Cocke, Johnson, Greene, Sullivan, Washington, McMinn, and Ashe counties.

( Ashe County, with the smallest forestland area, is the only county that is in North Carolina ; all the rest are in Tennessee.

The Ashe juniper ( cedar ) uplands of the preserve are home to the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.

The Doctor meanwhile returns to the central dome of the colonists, having evaded an IMC attempt to kill him, and explains to Ashe that the miners are behind the deaths.

Still in the Adjudicator's guise he tells Ashe that an appeal will fail unless there are special circumstances, such as historical interest and is intrigued when Ashe tells him about the primitive city.

The remaining cast members are Don Beddoe as Tommy Kelly's former-gangster father, Jimmy Butler as Cadet Dewey, Walter Tetley as Cadet Blackburn and Earle Foxe, Eddie Dew and Warren Ashe as the officers in charge, Major Dover, Captain Kendall and Captain Banning, respectively.

The complex's three stadia are among the largest tennis stadia in the world, with Arthur Ashe Stadium topping the global list with a listed capacity of 23, 200.

The Volunteers ′ Dublin Brigade, 5th Battalion ( also known as the Fingal Battalion ), led by Thomas Ashe and his second in command Richard Mulcahy, composed of some 60 men, mobilised at Swords, where they seized the RIC Barracks and the Post Office.

Announcements by various celebrities that they had contracted HIV ( including actor Rock Hudson, basketball star Magic Johnson, tennis player Arthur Ashe and singer Freddie Mercury ) were significant in making the general public aware of the dangers of the disease to people of all sexual orientations.

Orisha devotees strive to obtain Ashe through Iwa-Pele or gentle and good character, and in turn they experience alignment with the Ori, or what others might call inner peace or satisfaction with life.

* " Penelope Ashe ", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as " junk " in order to prove that sex-filled trash sells.

Although Ashe juniper is native to central Texas, it is considered a weed by many landowners and developers in that area, especially by ranchers because overgrazing by cattle selectively removes competition when they avoid the bitter-tasting juniper seedlings.

He married Mary Porter in 1748 ; they had three children, including John Baptista Ashe, who would serve in the Continental Congress.

Geoffrey Ashe is one dissenter from this view, believing that Geoffrey's narrative is partially derived from a lost source telling of the deeds of a 5th-century British king named Riotamus, this figure being the original Arthur, although historians and Celticists have been reluctant to follow Ashe in his conclusions.

According to Geoffrey Ashe, Gildas may have been referring to Aurelius ' first victories as occurring near the time of his birth, which Ashe suggests was around 473, while Mons Badonicus may have occurred much later.

Most of these artifacts have been found in the Old Fields area of Ashe County.

Many cattle farmers have switched to growing Christmas trees, and in 1997, 2007 and 2008, an Ashe County Christmas tree was selected as the official White House Christmas Tree by the National Christmas Tree Association.

Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe.

In more recent times writers such as Dion Fortune, John Michell, Nicholas Mann and Geoffrey Ashe have formed theories based on perceived connections between Glastonbury and Celtic legends of the otherworld and Annwn in attempts to link the location firmly with Avalon, drawing on the various legends based on Glastonbury Tor as well as drawing on ideas like Earth mysteries, Ley lines and even the myth of Atlantis.

However, little is known of John Churchill's childhood for he himself tells us nothing of it, but growing up in these impoverished conditions at Ashe, with family tensions soured by conflicting allegiances, may have had a lasting impression on the young Churchill.

His father's namesake, and John Churchill's biographer and descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, asserted – " conditions at Ashe might well have aroused in his mind two prevailing impressions: First a hatred of poverty ... and secondly, the need of hiding thoughts and feelings from those to whom their expression would be repugnant.

Geoffrey Ashe points out that, as above, Arthur is said by the early sources to have crossed into Gaul twice, once to help a Roman emperor and once to subdue a civil war.

One of the issues Ashe engaged in when he was appointed ambassador to Poland was the difficulty Poles have getting work and tourist visas for the United States.

Geoffrey Ashe theorizes that he was originally Glycerius, whose name was known to have been misspelled as " Lucerius " in texts prior to the writing of the Historia Regum Britanniae, and was further misspelled by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Seven more Americans have more than one Slam ( Smith, Ashe, Courier, Connors, Agassi, McEnroe and Sampras ).

Attempts have been made to rename the street after Arthur Ashe, a tennis star and social activist who was born and grew up in Richmond, but no renaming attempts have succeeded thus far.