The Forest
The Savage River State Forest covers approximately 54,324 acres of land in Garrett County (40 acres are in Allegany County). Mature mixed oak and northern hardwood forests comprise a large proportion of the Savage River State Forest. In general, sixty-six percent of the area is composed of older, more mature forests, while thirty-four percent are younger and smaller.
| Structure Stage | Total | % Total |
|---|---|---|
| Forest Type | ||
| Hemlock | 2,097.0 | 3.9 |
| Northern Hardwood | 9,121.8 | 17.1 |
| Hardwood Hard Pine | 104.8 | 0.2 |
| Mixed Oaks | 30,091.4 | 56.3 |
| Cove Hardwoods | 4,927.9 | 9.2 |
| Red Maple | 2,726.1 | 5.1 |
| Black Locust | 1,153.3 | 2.2 |
| Hardwood White Pine | 315.5 | 0.6 |
| Hardwood | 104.8 | 0.2 |
| Plantations | 2,830.9 | 5.3 |
| Total | 53,472.6 | 100.0 |
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“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“I was struck by this universal spring upward of the forest evergreens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)