The U.S.S. Constitution—named by George Washington and built with copper bolts forged by Paul Revere—is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat anywhere on Earth.
In the early 1970s, as the United States began preparing for its Bicentennial, Boston decided that the U.S.S.would be a focal point of the city’s anniversary celebrations, with a new museum to the celebrated warship opening at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
U.S. Navy forester Rod McGriff surveys a white oak marked with blue paint for eventual harvest at Naval Support Activity Crane in Crane, Indiana in July 2021. The 225-year-oldrequires a dry-dock refurbishment roughly every 10 years, and relies on timber from Crane for its upkeep.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: U.S. Navy forester McGriff measures the width of a white oak tree in Constitution Grove.
Environmental manager Trent Osman checks on his charges in Constitution Grove. White oak is naturally waterproof, making it a prized wood for formidable ships.
A bench provides a quiet spot in Constitution Grove, a 40-acre timber reserve within the world’s third-largest naval installation—which just happens to be 700 miles from the nearest ocean—in Crane, Indiana.As the ordnance magazines buried across the 108-square miles of naval installation began to dwindle at NSA Crane, the Navy created a forest management program with an eye toward harvesting more than 50,000 acres of the base that had been reforested during the New Deal.
Roughly 25 percent of the forest’s annual growth in NSA Crane is harvested per year, a point of sustainable pride for Oson. “Forest management, when done properly, can provide you a resource forever,” he says. “It’s renewable. But if you clear-cut an entire forest and build a Walmart parking lot, well, that’s it for that forest.”
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