Joan Maloof (born 1956 or 1957) is an American environmental activist and author.[1] She founded the Old-Growth Forest Network in 2012.[2]
Maloof was raised in Delaware. Her father was a chemical engineer.[1] She is the author of five books. Her first, Teaching the Trees, was published in 2005, and her second, Among the Ancients, in 2011.[1][3] In 2017, she published The Living Forest with photographer Robert Llewellyn.[4]
She is a professor emerita at Salisbury University.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b c Pitts, Jonathan M. (10 March 2022). "Steady growth: Maryland woman spearheads fight to preserve America's old-growth forests". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Grazier, Steven M. (13 April 2022). "Wilderness Center's Sigrist Woods becomes part of Old-Growth Forest Network". The Independent. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ DEAN, TAMARA (2010). "Blowdown: WHEN A TORNADO TEARS THROUGH A BELOVED LANDSCAPE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO JUST LET NATURE HEAL ITSELF?". The American Scholar. 79 (4): 66. ISSN 0003-0937. JSTOR 41222255.
- ^ Higgins, Adrian (24 October 2017). "An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Goldstein, Jessica (21 October 2011). "Descriptions of 'old-growth forest' are somewhat elusive". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Crable, Ad (17 December 2021). "Quest under way to find, protect old-growth forests". Bay Journal. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
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