Seward Park is a well-used and popular park due to its playground and scenic biking/walking path which outlines the peninsula; but few know that the park’s interior is a real old-growth forest and contains some of the area’s oldest trees. A forest is said to be “old-growth” when it has not been impacted by serious disruptions such as logging. These forests are ecologically distinct from forests regrown after their destruction, as they typically have far greater biodiversity, a lower proportion of invasive species, and complex tree structures with multilayered canopies….
