Day 5

We started the day at Gaudineer Knob. We were at 4100 feet. It is a spruce vigin forest. It is a virgin forest originally because of a surveyors mistake which led to it not being harvested. It had spruce, and birch mostly.  It is a spruce and deciduous forest that becomes just about all spruce as you go higher. There is moss lichen, and fungus. There is an understory with many plants and trees unlike the hemlock forest. The ground is very spongy because of the decomposing leaves. There is a lot of moisture( as shown by the mushroom and fungus growth) that helps decomposing but because the altitude is high.  The plants roots are wide instead of deep because there is a thin soil layer before rocks are hit.  The air is very fresh and has a good smell. It is nice to breath there.  The air quality was good as shown by the fact that there was a lot of lichen.  The soil is acidic but not as acidic as the hemlock forest. Its ph was 4.7.


fungus

ginger

Steve discussing with group

Next we measured one of themaple  trees at
N38*37.6902
W79*50.5549
The diameter of the tree was 29.3 inches and its height was 69.3
The total board feet tking into account for taper was 970.9
The value for maple is $3.70. Which gives a tree value of $3592.30.