Tucked into New Hampshire’s Rhododendron State Park, the 300-acre Rosalind & Fred Slavic Wilderness Preserve is characterized by majestic old oaks, beeches, maples, and yellow birches well on their way to becoming an old-growth forest of tomorrow.
The Rosalind & Fred Slavic Wilderness Preserve lies within a continuous, unbroken 14,000-acre forest. This forest is notable because it is exceptionally intact, has highly variable topography, outstanding habitat diversity, and is isolated enough to harbor robust populations of species that need interior forest. Not all this vast forest is protected, however. Conserving core wild habitat in extensive forests such as these is critical to increasing their resilience to climate change and biodiversity loss.
