Nationwide Pure Landmark Reynolds Spring and Algerine Swamp Bogs Have fun fiftieth Anniversary – Cyber Tech

Forest Fridays is a venture of the Pennsylvania Division of Conservation and Pure Assets, Bureau of Forestry. Story and photographs shared courtesy of the writer.  

by Chris Firestone

As we collect to have a good time our nation’s 248th birthday this 12 months, there may be one other notable anniversary to acknowledge throughout the Bureau of Forestry.  Fifty years in the past in 1974, Reynolds Spring and Algerine Swamp Bogs have been designated a Nationwide Pure Landmark (NNL), by the Nationwide Park Service.

The Nationwide Pure Landmark Program acknowledges and encourages conservation of excellent websites supporting pure heritage. Nationally there are 604 websites at present designated as NNLs.  Reynolds Spring and Algerine Swamp Bogs, positioned in Tioga and Lycoming Counties, are one web site of 27 present in 23 Pennsylvania counties. The Bureau of Forestry manages six of the websites, the remaining websites are managed by Bureau of State Parks or privately owned.  Moreover, one other 5 NNLs managed by Bureau of Forestry are Bear Meadows Pure Space in Rothrock State Forest, Synder-Middlesworth Pure Space Bald Eagle State Forest, Hemlocks Pure Space and Field Huckleberry web site in Tuscarora State Forest and Pine Creek Gorge in Tioga State Forest.  Bear Meadows was the primary addition being designated in 1965. In keeping with the Nationwide Pure Landmark web site, Reynolds Spring and Algerine Swamp have been the final designated on State Forest Land.

Algerine Swamp at dawn. Photograph: David Yeany, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Positioned in Tiadaghton State Forest, your entire plant group at Algerine Swamp Pure Space, is a Boreal Conifer Swamp, a tracked plant group by Pennsylvania Pure Heritage Program. This wetland has a deep layer of Sphagnum mosses and a shrub layer dominated by leatherleaf, Chamaedaphne calyculata, a shrub carefully resembling blueberry.  Habitat particular herbaceous plant species in addition to a wholesome inhabitants of Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) add to the conservation worth of this habitat.

Reynolds Spring Pure Space positioned in Tioga State Forest, is a nonglacial lavatory, a plant group tracked by the Pennsylvania Pure Heritage Program. At this web site the peat moss is restricted to elevated hummocks between areas of soupy muck.  Three state listed plant species along with different distinctive plant species that require these moist and low nutrient rising circumstances are present in these peatlands.

Moreover, extremely ranked odonate (dragonfly and damselfly) and lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species have been documented at each of those particular peatlands.

Altering environmental components over the subsequent fifty years will subtly change plant and animal range in these NNLs in Pennsylvania.  Right here is to the subsequent 50 years for these distinctive and particular habitats managed by the Bureau of Forestry.