Jeans Run Gorge (14)
Old-growth white pines above Jeans Run, Carbon County, within State Game Land 141. Note the fire scar on the pine to the right.
According to Old-Growth in the East: a Survey, by Mary Byrd Davis (published in 1993; revised in 2003 and available online), the gorge contains an estimated 140 acres of old-growth timber. Whether that estimate remains accurate today is unclear.
The hemlocks are, surprisingly, all healthy—at least in the upper third of the gorge, where I did most of my exploring. I saw no sign of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an exotic insect pest that has damaged or killed the hemlocks elsewhere in the area.
Jeans Run Gorge (14)
Old-growth white pines above Jeans Run, Carbon County, within State Game Land 141. Note the fire scar on the pine to the right.
According to Old-Growth in the East: a Survey, by Mary Byrd Davis (published in 1993; revised in 2003 and available online), the gorge contains an estimated 140 acres of old-growth timber. Whether that estimate remains accurate today is unclear.
The hemlocks are, surprisingly, all healthy—at least in the upper third of the gorge, where I did most of my exploring. I saw no sign of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an exotic insect pest that has damaged or killed the hemlocks elsewhere in the area.