Vegetation
Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness is well known for its stands of old-growth Canadian Hemlock, particularly in the northern reaches of Ramsey’s Draft, however these stands are under attack by the hemlock woolly adelgid and may not last much longer. Other large trees in the wilderness include Tulip Poplar, Eastern White Pine, Sugar Maple, Black Birch, Shagbark Hickory, and Northern Red Oak. Over 250 species of vascular plants have been identified and logged in Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness.
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Famous quotes containing the word vegetation:
“We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood.... What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)