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Austin T. Blakeslee Natural Area, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The northern hardwood forest is a general type of North American forest ecosystem found over much of southeastern and south-central Canada, Ontario, and Quebec, extending south into the United States in northern New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, and west along the Great Lakes to Minnesota and western Ontario.
The National Park Service describes the Upper Peninsula Experimental Forest as "an undisturbed white cedar and mixed conifer swamp containing old-growth hardwood stands." [3] The Dukes Research Natural Area consists of several hardwood stands that grow on relatively higher, well-drained elevations within the swamp tract. The U.S. Forest Service ...
The bottomlands and margin areas in the northern hardwood communities are primarily dominated by: red maple (Acer rubrum), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), black ash (Fraxinus nigra), eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides), and the silver maple (Acer saccharinum). The bottomlands and margin areas of the coniferous forests consist of: red ...
The Appalachian hemlock–northern hardwood forest is a forest system found in the Appalachian Mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and western North Carolina. These forests occur in deep coves, moist flats, and ravines.
northern hardwood [15] Massachusetts: Ice Glen: New England-Acadian forests: northern hardwood [37] Massachusetts: Monroe State Forest [15] 273 acres (110 ha) [15] New England-Acadian forests: northern hardwood [15] Massachusetts: Mount Everett State Reservation [15] 530 acres (210 ha) [15] New England-Acadian forests: northern hardwood [15 ...
Hearts Content represents E. Lucy Braun's hemlock-white pine-northern hardwood forest type. [8] The old-growth forest is from 122 acres (49 ha) to 150 acres (61 ha) in extent, but the scenic area is most famous for its 20 acres (8.1 ha) of tall white pine and Eastern hemlock . [ 9 ]
Mature stands have a variety of oak and hickory species adapted to dry-mesic conditions. Oaks include northern red oak ( Quercus rubra ), white oak ( Quercus alba ), black oak ( Quercus velutina ), and scarlet oak ( Quercus coccinea ); hickories include mockernut hickory ( Carya tomentosa ), shagbark hickory ( Carya ovata ), red hickory ( Carya ...
The pre-settlement forests were predominantly hemlock , white pine, and northern hardwoods forests. Most of these stands were dominated by eastern hemlock and beech . [ 2 ] The Finger Lakes area has a particularly rich mixture of woodland, while the pinewoods in the Pocono Mountains are a unique habitat.