Cold River coves   John Eichholz   Apr 10, 2004 19:38 PDT  ENTS: I had a couple of hours today to check out one of the coves above the Cold river in MTSF. The area is on the north face of an unnamed hill across the Cold River from Clark mountain. The slope of the hill is very steep. This particular cove had an unusual concentration of mature yellow birch, mixed with some nice but not super sugar maple and white ash. One of the yellow birch exceeded 100' in height. Also in the mix were red maple, a lone bitternut hickory, paper birch, black birch and a few hemlock. I noticed some striped maple in the understory, otherwise it was mostly open, with ferns and boulders aplenty. Here is a list: species         height CBH Yellow Birch         101.3 5.9 Yellow Birch         99.7 3.9 Yellow Birch         98.7 5.3 Yellow Birch         95.3 5.9 White Ash 123.9 4.2? White Ash 123.6 6.2 White Ash 121.2 5.7 Sugar Maple 115.9 6.2 Sugar Maple 113.3 7.2 Sugar Maple 111.9 5.7 Eastern Hemlock         114.7 8.0 Bitternut Hickory 111.9 4.2 I did not make it all that high up the slope. There are several drainage areas on this peak, that continue up several hundred feet. The hillside, apart from the drainages seems to be less distinctive. John Re: Cold River coves   John Eichholz   Apr 11, 2004 18:11 PDT  Bob:     The cove I was in was a few hundred yards west of the Florida town line, and east of the long parking area by the river. It is not the one across from the picnic area. John   Home