“When we try to pick out anything by itself,” John Muir wrote in My First Summer in the Sierra, “we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” The truth of this often-quoted line will be evidenced over and over again in these pages. Although each chapter has a specific topic, you will soon see that they are all, indeed, hitched together.”
p. ix

Nature’s Temples:
A Natural History of Old Growth Forests  
by Joan Maloof
Kindle 2016,  216 pages 
Rating 8.5 / forest conservation 

The Preface tells us that the use of typical forest management preserving all forest’s biodiversity is still not possible. And the evidence has been compiled here by Joan Maloof.   –
https://www.joanmaloof.com/ (There’s a lot at that site.) 

Actually, the reason for the book is to present the evidence which takes in the whole world and not just the East Coast of the US, which has less evidence, nor the West Coast with its abundance of evidence.  So the book has a (slightly) global perspective while maintaining a bit of an emphasis on the US East Coast. 

As a more negative observation – I think maybe Maloof gets a wee bit over-enthusiastic about diversity for its own sake.  

Maloof has done a wonderful job with the organization of so much material and her writing is strong, very clear and easy to read.  It still took me about 50 pages, 25%, to get hooked, but then I suddenly knew where she was going and that I was on board.  The last third was really quite enjoyable. 

What she’s doing is showing how old-growth forests are, in virtually all respects, superior to newer ones, both virgin and middle-aged. They have more species and more diversity within species, they have older and larger flora and fauna. They’re even more beautiful as well as having many more stellar attributes.

Acknowledgements are right there and there are links to findable (if not individualized) Source notes and there aren’t that many. It’s all rather nicely done within the limits of the technology and cost.