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Post by jskowron on Feb 14, 2007 11:11:19 GMT -5
If any of you have access to a satellite map/image program (e.g. Google Earth) could you let me know what you think of the pattern of "dots" at 44 45'30.17"N, 71 24'28.04"W. Knowing the area, it's most likely logging related. Any knowledge on why that pattern?
Just to the west you'll notice a bare area with a stream running through it (Nash Stream). This was Nash Bog Pond, but the dam broke in the 60's, scouring the bed of the stream for miles downstream and severely disrupting brookie habitat. If you're willing to hike a little off the road, there's some great brook trout water. I've also found a stand of wild iris along the stream. It's one of my favorite spots to fish.
Jeff
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Post by JoeOverlock on Feb 14, 2007 13:02:59 GMT -5
 It looks like logging. I can't tell for sure though. [glow=green,2,300]I'm thinking crop circles... [/glow]  |
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Post by weathermanmike on Feb 14, 2007 17:40:33 GMT -5
Alright... what you see in your image is an experimental forest. These were in use throughout the lumber booms of the 19th & early 20th centuries. These facitilies are no longer in use and most did have dams and engineered structures to catch whatever chemicals being used in the experiment. The picture attached is a GooGLE Earth image of Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in Campton, NH. At this site the experiments looked at the movement of chemicals througout the brook and into the lake below. More recently any of these facilities that are still in use are there for the purpose of testing logging techniques and how the stream reacts... sedimentation, rates of transport and a whole lotta science that I understand. In college, I took several field trips to Hubbard Brook  Jeff - I think your site is a similar testing area. It looks like it is no longer in use and I would also guess that chemicals were tested in that area. But I dont know anymore. If the fish are there, the chemicals are not in the area or are not in toxic concentrations. Neat Picture Joe. I have no idea what town thats in because I haven't looked at it myself on G.Earth. I hope my pic shows thru. -Michael |
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Post by jskowron on Feb 14, 2007 18:31:15 GMT -5
The area in Joe's picture is in Nash Stream Forest, in the town of Stark. Stark is in Northern NH, on rt. 110 between Groveton and Berlin. Nash Stream forest has some great, uncrowded hiking trails (relative to the Presidential range to the south), including some 3000 ft peaks with great views- especially the bald summit of North Percy peak, where in late summer you can't take a step without running into a ripe bunch of blueberries. The stream it self supports a growing population of brookies, augmented with stocking. Little to no fishing pressure other than one or two pull offs. Lots of snow machine trails.
weathermanmike- interesting about the experimental forest. I may have to try to hike in this summer and check it out. Do you know why the clearing would still be there? The empty bog is full of alders and other signs of reforestation following the dam break only 40 years ago. In other areas of the North Country there are areas now would mature trees that my wife remembers as clearcuts in the early 70s.
The flood rendered stretches of the stream bed pretty devoid of structure and remove most of the streamside vegetation in some areas. Early efforts at restoration involved straightening the stream course with bulldozers and building berm to maintain the flow (sort of a more natural version of the hoosic concrete shoots!). The state owns the land now and there are continuing efforts to rebuild the fishery (wish is currently healthy in many areas). It's kind of eery to drive up to the bog now and see the site of what once were camps on a lake, but now is just a large bowl full of smaller trees and shrubs.
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