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["John Abdon" <jabdon@hotmail.com>]

The last Ice Age ended about 14,000 years ago. As the glaciers receded, 
equatorial (at that time quite cool, as was the rest of the planet) regions 
rapidly evolved into our present day rainforests. These rainforests exists 
on extremely thin layers of top soil on glacial till. In the higher 
latitudes, few places existed that were not covered by deep ice.

Forest land is comonly held to be dense canopies of tall deciduous or 
evergreen trees. The reality is that joshua trees, manzanita groves, and 
other species (including arctic tundra and high desert chapparell) qualify 
for the term 'forest'.

From: "Ashley Roorbach" <Ashley.roorbach@orst.edu>
Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: oldest forest info
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:39:29

Hello;

I am looking for information on the age and location of the world's oldest
known forest.  Does anyone have this information or know where to get it
(ideally on the web)?

I am also trying to find the age of Indonesia's forests.  Does anyone
know?

Thanks!

Ash Roorbach

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