It also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs to support the industry. The particular method here is called regeneration or harvest cut. To your right and along the trail for about 800 feet is a selective thinning. To your left is a small clear cut. As you would weed and harvest your garden at home, we are doing the same thing with this stand of trees.
Hemlock trees are capable of surviving for long periods in the shade of other trees.
When an opening is created, they take advantage of the added sunlight and grow into good-sized trees. Foresters refer to this particular decayed granite as rotten rock and use it to cover many of the roads, footpaths, and campsite pads in the White Mountain National Forest. It takes approximately 1,000 years for mother nature to wear down solid rock enough to make an inch of soil. All life depends on water for survival. This small stream is a tributary to the Swift River, which feeds into the Saco River in Conway.