Sugar Maple Hardwood Forest, Elk State Forest, Pennsylvania

This photo of a hardwood forest stand in Red Run up on the Allegheny Plateau of northern Pennsylvania was made in June 2004. It was a rainy day, wet, calm, a little bit foggy from all the moisture. Serene. Nobody around, just the relative quiet of the woods: birds, raindrops falling on leaves and on the ground.

This stand of woods is predominantly sugar maple, with a few yellow birch, tulip poplar (yellow poplar or tuliptree), and eastern hemlock scattered about. The soil here is thin and very stony and rocky. Lots of wildlife in the area, most famously the Pennsylvania Elk Herd, those huge four legged celebrities of what is now being marketed as The Pennsylvania Wilds region.

Photo location: Red Run Road, Cameron County, Elk State Forest, Pennsylvania.

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