Joan Maloof

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Joan Maloof (born 1956 or 1957) is an American environmental activist and author. [1] She founded the Old-Growth Forest Network in 2012. [2] [3]

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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] [4] Nature's Temples followed in 2016, with a revised edition released in 2023. [5] In 2017, Maloof published The Living Forest with photographer Robert Llewellyn. [6] Her latest book, Treepedia, was published by Princeton University Press in 2021. [7]

She is a professor emerita at Salisbury University. [8] [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. ↑ Grazier, Steven M. (13 April 2022). "Wilderness Center's Sigrist Woods becomes part of Old-Growth Forest Network". The Independent . Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Old-growth forests and their importance for our climate". KPCW | Listen Like a Local. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Barton, Andrew M. (2020). "Nature's Temples Introduces General Readers to Old-growth Forests". The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 101 (3) e01703. doi: 10.1002/bes2.1703 . ISSN   2327-6096.
  6. ↑ Higgins, Adrian (24 October 2017). "An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees". The Washington Post . Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  7. 1 2 Maloof, Joan (2021-09-14). Treepedia: A Brief Compendium of Arboreal Lore. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-20875-6.
  8. ↑ Goldstein, Jessica (21 October 2011). "Descriptions of 'old-growth forest' are somewhat elusive". The Washington Post . Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Crable, Ad (17 December 2021). "Quest under way to find, protect old-growth forests". Bay Journal. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  10. ↑ Maloof, Joan (2023-04-04). Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests Revised and Expanded. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-23050-4.
  11. ↑ Llewellyn, Robert; Maloof, Joan (2017-10-04). The Living Forest: A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods. Timber Press. ISBN   978-1-60469-834-3.
  12. ↑ Maloof, Joan (2016-11-16). Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests. Timber Press. ISBN   978-1-60469-728-5.
  13. ↑ Maloof, Joan (2005). Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest. University of Georgia Press. ISBN   978-0-8203-2743-3.


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