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Table Falls From Above,
Quehanna Wild Area, Pennsylvania
Climbing the far rock face below Table Falls, I am able to find a scant foothold on the moss and leaf covered sidehill. This high, cold, pristine mountain stream flows over the mammoth sandstone slab only when the water volume is sufficient. Otherwise, it slides down the notches in the left and right sides of this scene.
At the base of the waterfall lie dead branches, stripped of their bark by the pounding waters. Down the stream they are pushed by storm event after storm event. Eventually they will be broken up, their nutrients forming stream bottom habitat for the aquatic insects so vital to the food chain, especially for native brook trout.
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