List of old-growth forests

This is a list of areas of existing old-growth forest which include at least 10 acres (4.0 hectares) of old growth.

[1] (NB: The terms "old growth" and "virgin" may have various definitions and meanings throughout the world.

A working group of state and Australian Government agencies took the NFPS definition into consideration in developing a definition that was accepted by all governments (JANIS 1997).

[6] Almost half of Australia's identified old-growth forest is in NSW, mostly on public land.

[5] More than 73% of Australia's identified old-growth forests are in formal or informal nature conservation reserves.

Redwood trees at Muir Woods National Monument , California

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest , Uganda

Gunung Leuser National Park , Indonesia

Yakushima , Japan

Eucalyptus forest in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park

Walpole Wilderness Area

Biogradska Gora , Montenegro

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians

Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park , British Columbia

Tongass National Forest , Alaska

Arborist and Coast Redwood , Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park , California

Belden Forest , Simsbury, Connecticut

Cathedral Pines Preserve , Cornwall, Connecticut

William Cullen Bryant Homestead , Cummington, Massachusetts

Porcupine Mountains , Michigan

Rock Creek Wilderness , Oregon

Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area , Pennsylvania

Linville Gorge Wilderness in the Pisgah National Forest , North Carolina

Congaree National Park , South Carolina

Olympic National Park , Washington

Braulio Carrillo National Park , Costa Rica