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Close up of a Hardwood Tree at Stone Valley Trail

Posted by Jared Shatkin,
North Country explorer from Williamsville, New York
February 4, 2015 —

The picture taken is from a beautiful spot in the Adirondack Park Preserve called Stone Valley trail in Colton New, York. This trail is your typical spot to look at any type of North Country species you desire to see. The picture below is a close up of a hardwood tree in the middle of winter. The tree is a older tree by the thickness of the tree. What interest me about this picture is you can see the different adaptions which this tree and the trees behind have taken to survive in the hard winters of the North Country.