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A pano that Google created for me. And, of course, if you click on original (below) it's pretty amazing. This is from the East Fork Overlook looking NNE I think.
Located here are the headwaters of the Pigeon River. Yellowstone Falls is a short distance away and gets its name from the yellowish moss covering the rocks.
you will see the silver ghosts of dead American Chestnut trees. Once one of the most prolific trees in the Appalachian Mountains, the American Chestnut was hit with a fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) starting in the early 1900s. The fungus most likely came over on imported Japanese Chestnut trees, which are immune to the fungus. By 1940, over FOUR BILLION trees had been killed nationwide, and the species was for the most part extinct except in a few places in California, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the Pacific northwest. The wood is so strong and rot-resistant that the dead trees still stand today.
Located here are the headwaters of the Pigeon River. Yellowstone Falls is a short distance away and gets its name from the yellowish moss covering the rocks.
you will see the silver ghosts of dead American Chestnut trees. Once one of the most prolific trees in the Appalachian Mountains, the American Chestnut was hit with a fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) starting in the early 1900s. The fungus most likely came over on imported Japanese Chestnut trees, which are immune to the fungus. By 1940, over FOUR BILLION trees had been killed nationwide, and the species was for the most part extinct except in a few places in California, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the Pacific northwest. The wood is so strong and rot-resistant that the dead trees still stand today.
Oct 27 2021