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Comments on Gigapan: Pitch Pine-Oak-Heath Rocky Summit, Vermont

  2. 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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  1. Chris Fastie

    Chris Fastie (October 14, 2010, 06:12PM )

    Plant species in this stand in estimated order of importance within category -- Trees: White pine (Pinus strobus), Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), Red maple (Acer rubrum), Red oak (Quercus rubra), Pitch pine (Pinus rigida), Red pine (Pinus resinosa), White oak (Quercus alba), Red spruce (Picea rubens), Shadbush (Amelanchier arborea), Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum), Paper birch (Betula papyrifera), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), Hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) ......... Shrubs: Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), Low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana), Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), Partridge berry (Mitchella repens) ...... Non-woody: Braken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), Sarsasparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), Whorled wood aster (Oclemena acuminata), Marginal shield fern (Dryopteris marginalis), Hair grass (Deschampsia flexuosa), Sphagnum, Polytrichum, Thuidium, Rhytidiadelphus, Cladonia, Umbilicaria .............................................. Elevation: 300 m (1000 ft), Camera location from GPS: N43 57.317 W73 04.361.......................................... Community names follow Thompson and Sorenson 2000 www.vtfishandwildlife.com/books/We tland,Woodland,Wildland Will open in a new tab or window/ .................................... Notes: Stitch Notes are incomplete apparently because Stitch does not correctly parse EXIF data in Lightroom's jpegs if certain values are missing, and several values were missing because I used an old lens with no electronic connection to the camera. So here are some of the missing values: I used a Nikon D40 with Nikkor P C 105mm f/2.5 lens at f/11, 1/80 second, ISO 200, NEF. 35mm equiv is 160mm. Focus was manually adjusted about 20 times. Two second shutter delay initiated by wireless remote. Field of view (Epic 100) 9.8 degrees. Exposure of groups of photos was increased by ~0.05 to 1.4 stops, and saturation, vibrance, highlight recovery, and fill light were adjusted for various groups of photos in Lightroom before outputting jpegs for stitching.