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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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Mesic Red Oak-Northern Hardwood Forest on a kame terrace in Salisbury, Vermont -- Large diameter red and white oaks in this small stand are the most valuable timber in the 130 acre Salisbury Town Forest. Many trees could provide veneer-quality logs, making some worth a few hundred dollars apiece. Although the canopy ...
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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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Shot on the night of Friday, August 12 from the Burlington Breakwater. I recieved permission from the US Coast Guard to stand out there...
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Limestone Bluff Cedar-Pine Forest at Lone Rock Point, Vermont – Dunham dolostone (Cambrian, light color) has been thrust to the west as much as 80 km (50 miles) and rests here on top of much younger Iberville shale (Ordovician, black). The contrasting appearance of the two rock types, and the ca. 50 million year diff...
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Rattlesnake Point is the ultimate vantage for Lake Dunmore and most of Salisbury, Vermont. I took a panorama from here on August 1, but it was so hazy it would not stitch properly. After a month of hazy or cloudy weather, I returned to this point on September 2, but it was the day public schools opened in Vermont, so...
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Mesic Maple-Ash-Hickory-Oak Forest -- Thin glacial till soils over calcium-rich limestone and marble on this west-facing slope support a productive forest dominated by sugar maple, red oak, and white ash. Shagbark hickory and hophornbeam are also common. If allowed to mature for a few decades, this could become import...
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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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From the top of McCardell Bicentennial Hall, the tallest building on campus, looking east to the Green Mountains of Vermont. It is a quiet Friday afternoon, but with much anticipation for the weekend's upcoming Quidditch World Cup. The quidditch pitches can be seen in the largest field in the scene. Some technical n...
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The Crown Point Bridge was abruptly closed on October 16, 2009 after underwater inspection revealed dramatic deterioration of two support piers. Built in 1929 between Chimney Point, Vermont (right) and Crown Point, New York (left), it is one of only two bridges that cross Lake Champlain. The bridge is not expected to...
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