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The intersection of Routes 7 and 53 in Salisbury is in the center of this scene. In the past 230 years, the composition of these forests has changed from dominance by American beech, sugar maple, and eastern hemlock to dominance by white pine, sugar maple, red oak, white ash, and paper birch. This reflects the increas...
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Even at dinnertime there is some recreational activity on a warm Friday at Lake Dunmore. The lake marks the eastern edge of the Champlain Valley and the base of the first ridge of the Green Mountains. A stagnant mass of glacial ice probably sat in the lake's depression as the main lobe of glacial ice retreated to the...
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My apologies to those whose knowledge of the fierce territoriality of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds might make the above scene a perplexing distortion of reality. Rarely will the local male allow birds others than his mate to use a food source in his territory, so a feeding flock like this is impossible, and has a biolog...
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This vegetable garden is in the well-drained sandy loam of a 13,000 year old ice-contact alluvial fan. Soil fertility is enhanced by tilling under 30 cm of tree leaves each autumn, and several cm of composted cow manure each spring. During the growing season, beds are mulched with compost and old hay. Most of the pr...
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