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Otter View Park, in Middlebury, VT, includes the cattail marsh along Otter Creek, the forested bank, and an adjacent field. This image includes 34 photographs taken by cameras lofted by a kite. Capture: Two flights on November 18, 2011 with a Levitation Delta kite lofting a Canon Powershot S95 (10 MP, 27 of the p...
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The floating peat mat to the left supports some plants rarely found outside of cold, nutrient poor, peat bogs. Where the two-meter thick peat mat is not floating, trees and tall shrubs outcompete the bog plants. Much of the 50 acres of peatland surrounding Molly Bog supports a conifer swamp with spruce, larch, hemloc...
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The apparent levee along the shoreline of Molly Pond is vegetative, not geomorphic. Leatherleaf grows tall at the edge of the floating peat mat which has been encroaching into this kettle pond for thousands of years. The floating mat is about two meters thick in the foreground and supported my weight well, but I had t...
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During World War II this hillside was a cow pasture. After the war it was abandoned, and by 1960 a forest of young white pines had closed its canopy over the field. Some of the slower growing pines have since died, and the canopy opened to admit enough light for many sugar maple seedlings to germinate and establish i...
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There are several dozen examples of this forest community in Vermont, most of them less than a few hectares in size. This is the most recently discovered example. The community is distinguished by the presence of pitch pine, which reaches its northern range limit in Vermont, and occurs in only three community types i...
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Extreme wind and weather on mountain peaks in Vermont result in treeless areas above elevations approaching 4000 feet (~1200 m). These small areas support alpine tundra vegetation thought to be remnants of once widespread, post-glacial tundra. Heavy recreational use along the Long Trail, a spur of the Appalachian Tra...
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Northern Hardwood Forest – Sugar maple and American beech are common in this stand and provide the yellow glow. Beech trees have reproduced by root sprouts far from the main trunks and form a dense sapling thicket. These saplings and some young sugar maples have held onto their yellowed leaves and brighten this sce...
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Hemlock Forest in the Salisbury Town Forest -- Eastern hemlocks are responsible for more than 75% of both tree density and canopy cover in this stand, and hardwoods scattered among the hemlocks include three species of oak. The dark forest floor supports little more than mosses. Many of the trees here are about 200 y...
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Ring counts of increment cores from the two large hemlocks in this scene confirm that both are more than 300 years old. These are certainly the oldest trees in the town forest, and likely the oldest in Salisbury. A few large chestnut oaks and white oaks in the stand may be nearly as old. It is unusual to find living...
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Northern Hardwood Forest -- This is the most common forest type in Vermont, and varies greatly in species composition from place to place. Forests like this cover countless square miles on the glacial till mantled slopes of the Green Mountains. This stand at 530 m in the Green Mountain National Forest is dominated by s...
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