Articles about the Old Forest on Mount Sunapee


Citizens Work to Protect Ancient Forest on Mt. Sunapee (Valley Green Journal, 2019-2020, via FOMS News) – “… a grassroots group, Friends of Mount Sunapee, is raising public awareness that the park includes a very rate ancient forest.”


The Primeval Forest of Mount Sunapee (Eagle Times, 2018, via FOMS News) – “Mount Sunapee contains as much as 10 percent of all the known ancient forest in New Hampshire and the great majority south of the White Mountains.”


Hiking Mount Sunapee’s Summit Trail by Gary Stansfield, courtesy of SooNipi Magazine, 2015 (PDF 3.3 MB) – “It embodies what state parks are all about: the preservation of areas of rare natural beauty for all to enjoy.”


Sunapee Old Growth: Students Meet the Ancients by Dave Anderson (via Colby-Sawyer College) – “Exploring Nature” students at Colby-Sawyer College visit the rare old-growth forest in the East Bowl of Mount Sunapee.


Sunapee Old Growth: Where Youngsters Meet Ancients, 2008, via the Forest Society