Grammy-winning composer Paul Winter is coming to New Hampshire this weekend to celebrate trees – specifically, old growth forests in New England.

His concert at Dartmouth College this Saturday is called “This Glorious Earth.” It’s part of a series of events this weekend put on by the New England conservation organization, Standing Trees .

NHPR’s Morning Edition host Rick Ganley spoke with Paul Winter and Standing Trees’ Executive Director Zach Porter ahead of the event.

Transcript

Let me start with you, Zach. What are old growth forests specifically and where are they in New Hampshire?

Zach Porter: Old growth forests were the forests that blanketed much of our region here in New Hampshire and across New England prior to European colonization, of course with thriving Indigenou

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