| Black
Mountain Crest Trail, NC |
James
Smith |
| Dec
21, 2004 17:18 PST |
In November (the last time I was free to go hiking), I hit the
Black
Mountain Crest Trail from Mount Mitchell and hiked over to
Winter Star
and made the return trip by backtracking. Hell of a hike. It had
been
some time since I'd been up there, and I was stunned at the
recovery of
the Fraser firs! Where I had hiked in full sunlight ten years
ago, I was
now walking in shade again. The forest, while uniformly young of
course,
looked very healthy.
What's the deal? They haven't had time to be killed by acid
rain? Are
the aphids gone? Are they as doomed as their predecessors? |
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