Forest physiography; physiography of the United States and principles of soils in relation to forestry . ugh a few such cases Stratton, one of the two highest peaks in southern Vermont, iscompletely covered with glacial debris even to its summit.^ The eastern slopes of the Green Mountains are the gentler and it isnatural that we should find them more heavily cloaked with glacial > C. H. Hitchcock, Glaciation of the Green Mountain Range, Rept. State Geologist ofVermont, 1904, p. 75. 6S2 FOREST PHYSIOGRAPHY material. Especially do they have a covering on the lower slopes, whichare
Forest physiography; physiography of the United States and principles of soils in relation to forestry . ugh a few such cases Stratton, one of the two highest peaks in southern Vermont, iscompletely covered with glacial debris even to its summit.^ The eastern slopes of the Green Mountains are the gentler and it isnatural that we should find them more heavily cloaked with glacial > C. H. Hitchcock, Glaciation of the Green Mountain Range, Rept. State Geologist ofVermont, 1904, p. 75. 6S2 FOREST PHYSIOGRAPHY material. Especially do they have a covering on the lower slopes, whichare cleared and farmed and form a pleasing contrast to the westernslopes of the White Mountains on the opposite side of the ConnecticutValley. The narrow fringe of upland between the Green -Mountainsand the Connecticut Valley, the northern representative of the Pied-mont Plateau, is also blanketed with glacial waste and both hills andvalleys are dotted with homesteads. The abundant rainfall of the Green Mountains, a condition whichthey share with the rest of New England, offsets to some degree the dis-. Fig. 262. — Forest growth on a steep and rocky New England hillside, Jamaica Plain, Mass. advantages of a thin soil, and though the forest growth is never luxuriant,it is, or was, in the main continuous. The lower valley slopes offer thedeepest soil and the most sheltered positions and hence are most heavilytimbered. The soil of the higher exposed situations supports a rela-tively thin forest of spruce and birch. The most favorable situations OLDER APPALACHIANS (NORTHERN DIVISION) 653 for tree growth are the coves developed upon the older granites of therange, where the decayed rock is heavily cloaked with glacial till. Both the White and the Green mountains, as well asmany other portionsof New England, have great tracts of ultimate forest land, that is to say,land which will bear trees more profitably than anything else and hencewill be kept timbered when mans purposes become we
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