A gallery of digital images of
Mohawk Trail State Forest taken by our John Knuerr.
Image A is of the height
champion American basswood (125.5 ft).
Image B is of the great Joseph Brant
Pine, the latest addition to the 160 club: height 160.5 ft. The
Brant Pine is one of five in Mohawk Trail State Forest that
exceed 160 feet in height and one of 35 that exceed 150 ft.
There is no other place in New England that has such an
assemblage of trees in this height range.
Image C is of a colorful
fungus known as chicken of the woods.
Image D is a 106-foot, arrow
straight red maple that illustrates to the forestry profession
that not all red maples are junk as they are inclined to
believe.
Image E is of a colorful
fungus known as chicken of the woods.
Image F looks upstream along the
Deerfield River. The rapids at the bottom of the image are at
Zoar Gap. The mountain across the river is part of Negus
Mountain. The rounded summit is 1,773 feet above sea level. The
altitude of the Deerfield River is 600 feet. The gorge depth
from the Negus summit is 1,173 feet.
Image G is the rest of Negus Mountain.
The summit you see is about 1725 feet. Negus is named for an
Abyssinian king who once gave Mohammed sanctuary.
3-dimmentional topographic map of
portions of Mohawk Trail State Forest
