Good Oak LbNA #12984
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 4, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Niagara Falls |
| County: | Niagara |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Ninja Rob  |
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| Found by: | The Humming Harkies |
| Last found: | Jul 25, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFFFaaaFaFFFFFFFFFU |
| Last edited: | Jan 4, 2005 |
"We sensed that these two piles of sawdust were something more than wood: that they were the integrated transact of a century; that our saw was biting its way, stroke by stroke, decade by decade, into the chronology of a lifetime, written in concentric annual rings of good oak."
--from "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold
DeVeaux Woods is located across the Robert Moses Parkway from the better-known Whirlpool State Park in Niagara Falls, NY. Still called the DeVeaux Campus of Niagara University on many maps, it was once the estate of Samuel DeVeaux. Protected from development, it became the last remnant of the great oak forest that once lined both sides of the Niagara Gorge. In 2000, it became New York's 159th State Park and the first established primarily to protect an old growth forest.
Turning into the driveway off Lewiston Road near Findlay Drive, veer right at the fork and park where the road widens. Between the maintenance building and the old boiler house, find a wood chip trail guarded by two giant stumps. With the backs of the abandoned campus buildings to the left and the yards of the city's DeVeaux Neighborhood residents to the right, head into the woods. Soon the path will split to the left. Walk between the two giant oaks. From here you can spot a larger specimen ahead--just off the trail to the right. Stand at the base and look up at the stag-headed crown, contorted from decades of wind and ice storms. Notice how high the lowest branches begin. Before the country was born, it was waiting its turn to reach the canopy. Feel the deep furrowed bark and look down to the buttressed roots. Put your hands into the holes that they create. Think of the ancient forest. You can almost see the squirrel that once hopped from branch to branch on its way from Maine to the Mississippi without ever touching the ground.
After you find what you're looking for, you can continue on the trail until you reach the bike path. To the left is your car. To the right across the Parkway is Whirlpool Park. Find out why it got that name at the overlook or get a closer view by climbing down the stone steps to the river.
More information about old growth forests in the area can be found in "The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast" by Bruce Kershner and Robert T. Leverett.
--from "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold
DeVeaux Woods is located across the Robert Moses Parkway from the better-known Whirlpool State Park in Niagara Falls, NY. Still called the DeVeaux Campus of Niagara University on many maps, it was once the estate of Samuel DeVeaux. Protected from development, it became the last remnant of the great oak forest that once lined both sides of the Niagara Gorge. In 2000, it became New York's 159th State Park and the first established primarily to protect an old growth forest.
Turning into the driveway off Lewiston Road near Findlay Drive, veer right at the fork and park where the road widens. Between the maintenance building and the old boiler house, find a wood chip trail guarded by two giant stumps. With the backs of the abandoned campus buildings to the left and the yards of the city's DeVeaux Neighborhood residents to the right, head into the woods. Soon the path will split to the left. Walk between the two giant oaks. From here you can spot a larger specimen ahead--just off the trail to the right. Stand at the base and look up at the stag-headed crown, contorted from decades of wind and ice storms. Notice how high the lowest branches begin. Before the country was born, it was waiting its turn to reach the canopy. Feel the deep furrowed bark and look down to the buttressed roots. Put your hands into the holes that they create. Think of the ancient forest. You can almost see the squirrel that once hopped from branch to branch on its way from Maine to the Mississippi without ever touching the ground.
After you find what you're looking for, you can continue on the trail until you reach the bike path. To the left is your car. To the right across the Parkway is Whirlpool Park. Find out why it got that name at the overlook or get a closer view by climbing down the stone steps to the river.
More information about old growth forests in the area can be found in "The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast" by Bruce Kershner and Robert T. Leverett.