Frigid Till Depressions

Description

Closed canopy mixed species swamps with a combination of red maple, hemlock, yellow birch, red spruce as common trees. Natural disturbances include wind-throw, insect damage, and weather fluctuations. These disturbances can create pockets of open canopies.

Resilience management

From NY Natural Heritage Program:

Where practical, establish and maintain a natural wetland buffer to reduce storm-water, pollution, and nutrient run-off, while simultaneously capturing sediments before they reach the wetland. Buffer width should take into account the erodibility of the surrounding soils, slope steepness, and current land use. If possible, minimize the number and size of impervious surfaces in the surrounding landscape. Avoid habitat alteration within the wetland and surrounding landscape. For example, roads and trails should be routed around wetlands, and ideally should not pass through the buffer area. If the wetland must be crossed, then bridges and boardwalks are preferred over filling. Prevent the spread of invasive exotic species into the wetland through appropriate direct management, and by minimizing potential dispersal corridors, such as roads. When considering road construction and other development activities, minimize actions that will change what water carries and how water travels to this community, both on the surface and underground.

Submodel

Description

A combination of hydrology alterations and disturbances (i.e roads, damns, drainage ditches, diversions) have affected species composition and may have introduced invasive species such as reedgrass, purple loosestrife, honeysuckles, etc. The state may also be secondary forest from timber harvest or abandoned land uses such as pasture or cropland.

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