Second, we need to save our old-growth forests.

第二，我们需要保护好我们的古老森林。

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Pressure treated wood contains harmful arsenic, and western red cedar is often found in sensitive old-growth forests.

压力处理的木材含有有害的砷，西部红柏往往是在敏感的原始森林。

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In the case of the ivory-billed woodpecker, the wood needed to create our human niches led to the decimation of the Southern old-growth forests that the red-capped bird needed to survive.

在象牙喙啄木鸟的例子中，用木材搭建人类小环境的做法大量毁坏了南部年岁久远的森林——这种红冠小鸟赖以生存的环境。

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In western Oregon's mature old-growth forests, however, preserving the forests means leaving them alone.

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The notorious spotted owl, which has caused several presidents grief, does not live only in old-growth forests, as was once thought.

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It turned a ramshackle industry, in which old-growth forests were largely quarried for their use in making talon, into an industry in which the trees themselves became the marketable product.

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