Very pretty area. I like the shale stream bed (last pic) , it kind looks like a Japanese Garden , simple lines and not busy.
On Sep 26, 12:47 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > On Monday, September 21, Dale Luthringer, Rob Frank, and Myself (Ed Frank) > visited Sixteen Mile Run. Rob and I drove about 80 miles northwest and > turned twenty miles north to get to Northeast. Actually this is a peculiar > naming convention. The run and the town are named for their relationship to > the city of Erie. Northeast is a town northeast of Erie. This is a peculiar > naming convention here whereby this town and various streams are named for > their proximity to Erie. > > I had high hopes for this site. It was a forested narrow canyon that cut > through the bluff and flowed northward into Lake Erie. The geology of lake > Erie is very complex and consists of series of different glacial lakes with > different outlets over time accompanied by more recent effects of rebound > from the retreat of ice during the last ice age. In general the overall > effect is that a series of narrow steep-walled canyons have been cut through > relatively soft Devonian and Silurian shales by streams flowing northward and > emptying into Lake Erie. > > Dale had previously documented some impressive trees in other examples of > these canyons, These include Wintergreen Gorge, Six-mile Run, Walnut Creek, > and Elk Creek (see the ENTS website). From air photos on Google Earth, this > site looked like it has similar potential and it had not been visited by ENTS > previously. We arrived at the meeting place at the intersection of 89 and > I90 at around ten o'clock and headed to the gorge. We entered the upper end > of the the western branch of the complex just south of a gold course. I will > avoid the suspense and say that the canyon had been cut previously and we did > not find any really big trees. The canyon was a beautiful walk. > > Dale did find a few larger trees in a smaller side canyon, including a > tuliptree 137 feet tall. Dale will post the measurements later. Overall we > had a RI of 109 feet. There were some unusual features. In one area near > the head of the canyon was a section where the forest floor was covered by > yew. We were not sure if it was an American Yew or a Japanese yew escaping > from the nearby houses and golf course. > > Another interesting feature were the steep-walled shale banks along several > sections of the canyon. It is unlikely that these were ever cut, so they > were primary forest even if they were not old. Tree present included aspen, > red oak, sumac, yellow birch, black locust, sugar maple, and some white pine. > Near the top of these walls were some stunted and old looking examples of > red oak and hemlock. > > Patterns in the stream floor > > It was a beautiful walk even if the trees were not that big or old. > > "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every > now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I > couldn't live with myself" - Professor Hubert Farnsworth > > 16-00r.JPG > 100KViewDownload > > DSCN1275r.JPG > 120KViewDownload > > DSCN1270r.JPG > 66KViewDownload > > DSCN1285r.JPG > 110KViewDownload > > DSCN1302e1.JPG > 120KViewDownload > > DSCN13141.JPG > 112KViewDownload > > DSCN1316r.JPG > 117KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
