Jeans Run Gorge (14) (13923609769)

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Description: Old-growth white pines above Jeans Run, Carbon County, within State Game Land 141. Note the fire scar on the pine to the right. According to Old-Growth in the East: a Survey, by Mary Byrd Davis (published in 1993; revised in 2003 and available online), the gorge contains an estimated 140 acres of old-growth timber. Whether that estimate remains accurate today is unclear. The hemlocks are, surprisingly, all healthy—at least in the upper third of the gorge, where I did most of my exploring. I saw no sign of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an exotic insect pest that has damaged or killed the hemlocks elsewhere in the area. Date: 4 May 2014, 12:37. Source: Jeans Run Gorge (14). Author: Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA. Camera location40° 53′ 43.14″ N, 75° 46′ 51.09″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 40.895316; -75.780858.