The Pocomoke State Forest (PSF) consists of 17,676 acres of land with the vast majority of it located in Worcester County between Snow Hill and Pocomoke City, however small parcels are located in Wicomico and Somerset Counties Before the establishment of the State Forest much of the land had been cleared for farming or used as farm woodlots. When the depression era hit many of the farmers fell on hard times, resulting in the acquisition of large amounts of land by the Federal Government. In the mid to late 1930's, two Civilian Conservation Camps were located on the Forest. The camp workers did considerable road and trail work, established boundary lines, provided for fire protection and suppression, planted trees and performed recreation improvements at Milburn Landing. At this same time the State was purchasing lands for management activities. In 1954, the Federal Government deeded its holdings to the State. In 1964, the Milburn Landing and Shad Landing areas were separated from the Forest and developed for intensive recreational use as State Parks. The State continues to purchase in-holdings and other ecologically important areas along the Pocomoke River.​ Pocomoke State Forest is characterized by large areas of loblolly pine, mixed pine-hardwood, bottomland hardwood, and bald-cypress forests. In general, the mixed pine-hardwood, hardwoods, and bald cypress stands are older, mature forests, while loblolly pine stands are more evenly distributed across all age classes. The Cypress swamps which are State designated Wildlands, border the Pocomoke River which is a State designated Scenic River. Pocomoke State Forest Pocomoke State Forest Pocomoke State Forest has a very small remnant area of Old Growth Forest approximately 5 acres in size. The goal on PSF is to expand Old Growth Forest by connecting a series of forest stands identified as “nearly old growth forest”. The larger areas that contain the nearly old growth stands will be mapped as old growth management areas. Old Growth Forest management is more fully described in the new Sustainable Management Plan for PSF see the section on the Forest Management Plan below.