adirondack shoreline phenomena

Posted by blovius on Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:31 am

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just returned from a 3 day wilderness canoe cruise. nice weather and not a blackfly in flight.

nearly every adirondack body of water of any consequence has the shoreline phenomena seen here - both foregnd and backgnd.

just to test your natural world knowledge, anyone know what causes it?

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by Paul Skoczylas on Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:19 pm

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blovius wrote: just to test your natural world knowledge, anyone know what causes it?

I'd hazard a guess that either the lakes flood to a certain height on a regular basis, or there's some critter that will eat any branches below a certain height.

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by chris earle on Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:41 am

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I'd guess that's how deep the snow gets.

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by Rich S on Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:00 pm

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Moving ice in the winter will scour the shoreline, but I'm surprised if it actually gets this high.

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by blovius on Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:55 am

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actually paul came close wih his two-part guess.

during the winter when the lakes, rivers and ponds freeze, deer come out to browse the shoreline - esp. cedars - and they create the "browse line" seen here. it is ubiquitous and amazingly uniform throughout the adirondacks.

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