Seeing the Forest from Above: How a Good Map can be a Game-Changer for Old-Growth Forest Conservation - John M. Hagan

An article written and ready by John M. Hagan. John Hagan is a forest ecologist and President of the nonprofit Our Climate Common, based in Georgetown, Maine. He has studied Maine’s working forest landscape for 33 years. For more information about the Late-Successional and Old Growth (LSOG) mapping project, see Hagan et al., 2024 . If you would like help determining whether LiDAR might be useful for your area, contact John Hagan at [email protected] the full article and discover additional content in the Winter 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.