A little bit of added interest found by snooping around online, for anybody interested in old trees, in an area often visited for whitewater trips... Snake creek enters the Lower Madawaska just above the first rapids and below the Quadeville put-in at Aumond Bay. I'd paddled Snake creek and visited the Lower Madawaska several times before, SC to see what was there and as an alternate access to the Madawaska, and hadn't known this was in the area.
The old growth eastern white cedars aren't that much of a surprise... I cut one down for a fence post once, and counted 114 rings, some so closely packed together a hand lens was needed to count them... from a small, unremarkable tree, along with finding stumps from old cedars cut down in other places. There are cedar swamps scattered throughout the landscape here and some of them do look old... the cedars shown from the SC area may have been there before logging and settlement began during the mid-1800s, a remnant still intact from the pre-settlement days.
The old basswood with the unusual bark pattern and tamarack pictured are interesting and might be worth checking out since they've been cored and are known-age trees.
The Native Tree Society thread below was started by Michael Henry, the author of Old Growth Trees of Ontario... as with other old-growth forests, these aren't very impressive for photos, but seeing them on the ground and knowing they're old growth could be something worth stepping into just to be there, and might help with recognition.
PS... this comment on old-growth appearance... "[FONT="]the trees are smallish for their age, but appeared to be mostly around 150-200-year-old cedars"...[/FONT]
http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=7942
The old growth eastern white cedars aren't that much of a surprise... I cut one down for a fence post once, and counted 114 rings, some so closely packed together a hand lens was needed to count them... from a small, unremarkable tree, along with finding stumps from old cedars cut down in other places. There are cedar swamps scattered throughout the landscape here and some of them do look old... the cedars shown from the SC area may have been there before logging and settlement began during the mid-1800s, a remnant still intact from the pre-settlement days.
The old basswood with the unusual bark pattern and tamarack pictured are interesting and might be worth checking out since they've been cored and are known-age trees.
The Native Tree Society thread below was started by Michael Henry, the author of Old Growth Trees of Ontario... as with other old-growth forests, these aren't very impressive for photos, but seeing them on the ground and knowing they're old growth could be something worth stepping into just to be there, and might help with recognition.
PS... this comment on old-growth appearance... "[FONT="]the trees are smallish for their age, but appeared to be mostly around 150-200-year-old cedars"...[/FONT]
http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=7942
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