Native American Trail Marker Tree & Blow-Downs

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On an unseasonably warm day in early December, we headed out to Stony Creek in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Just 15 minutes outside of Harrisburg, the state's capital, Stony Creek offers an entirely different world and ecosystem. While walking around we noticed a perfect example of a Native American trail marker in the form of a tree. Just behind the Native American trail marker tree were two blown down hemlock trees who had peeled back the earth with their downfall.

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puts up Turtles it's quick here with black outdoors and just walking around Stony Creek Pennsylvania and just wanted to share something I've noticed in my walk

there's this tree growing at a really odd shape which stands out to me amongst all these other trees that are growing straight up reaching for Sun and this you can see the trees coming up swerving here and then has this crook in it and it's and it's going straight up in the air

and certain natives would actually manipulate saplings to do something that looks just like this as as markers on the land and I'm not saying this has been influenced by native at any any rate but I'm just pointing out something and sharing you know peace information and just for me being out here if I was coming out to a certain spot or or I saw a resource that was right next to here I could remember this tree as as a marker you know or not just this tree which is like I said standing out amongst all the other ones directly behind me there's a massive root ball that has come up of two old hemlock and it's created a really really interesting cool habitat I'm gonna take a walk over to get closer following me over and there's standing water all around me and running water like I said this is a valley a valley bottom with a high water table and it's also known as Stoney Creek for a reason there's a lot of a lot of stones around here boulders it's really uneven territory but it's very deceptive with all the leaf litter coming down sometimes you're unable to see the stones and try and twist your ankle misstep all that but huge blanket a root ball of moss still growing that's so cool and like I said because it's stony and as a high water table the roots of these trees are just growing out they're not able to put roots down for a lot of anchoring and support from the tree it's all growing out on this rocky substrate and this is why you get these huge root balls pulling out these thin layers of roots and this is actual cavity back here there's standing water but it's pretty big

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