He said the same thing to me!

I got scammed by this guy hard when I lived in station north by the Charles theatre. He said he needed cab money and would pay me back. He never did but didn’t recognize me and approached me 3 months later. I yelled “you owe me 40 bucks you fucker!” and he bolted. Never saw him after that.

William Donald Schaefer named it the official tree of Baltimore back when he was mayor

You might not even know you’re in old growth bc a lot of the oldest trees aren’t that big. Red spruce and hemlock can stay small in the shade for a loooong time.

Having worked/studied these patches, intentional and ecologically informed treatments would hugely benefit these areas. This is mainly because the state’s forests have 1 or 2 dominant age classes in the canopy. Eastern old growth is characterized by a complex structure and high amounts of large fallen deadwood in addition to large old trees. UVM actually developed a forestry treatment called “Structural Complexity Enhancement” to help forests get on a better trajectory to old growth structure. It’s been very successful and used on public & private land in Vermont. It’s widely understood by land managers that if you clear cut, you will get a stand of unmarketable beech and red maple growing up. Thus there’s a desire for more complex and sustainable silviculture.

New England’s national forests are some of the best managed Silviculture in the country just saying

Plenty of great hiking in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park - quiet trails in the middle of true old growth. If that’s what you’re looking for, hike the Lazear trail.

https://friendsofgwynnsfallsleakinpark.org/resources/Documents/GwynnsFallsLeakinParkTrailMap.pdf