Doc Kudish Natural Forest

– Paul Smith’s College

The Doc Kudish Natural Forest of Paul Smith's College is a 75-acre stand of hemlock-northern hardwood which includes some 30-40-inch diameter hemlock, yellow birch, and sugar maple, and all the structural indicators of old-growth forest. In his Paul Smith’s Flora II (1981) Dr. Kudish describes the western portion of the tract as “first growth” having been maintained as such for educational purposes, so that people can “see today what our forests looked like before 1850.”

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