Watchers Instructions December Challenge Records Area Checklist Checklist in pdf. The count area to include all of Unity Pond, Sandy Pond, Twenty-Five Mile Stream, and Sandy Stream, and portions of Carlton Pond and Sebasticook River. Elevation 180 feet at center of count circle and between 130 feet at Sebasticook River in Burnham to 1037 feet in Thorndike. Fall 1997 yielded numerous ornamental crab apples with hanging fruit as well as abundant wild apples with hanging fruit.
Yellow birch has abundant seed bearing catkins.
White pine has an excellent cone crop, but cones are mostly open and may contain few seeds.