RE: Old Growth Forest: Hartwick Pines State Park

The damage caused by the ice storm seems really severe, especially because of how it has altered the normal process of pine branches falling when trees are usually quite resistant to inclement weather but I guess when so much weight from ice accumulates on the upper parts, even they can't support it, nature does has a way of bringing something good out of bad situations and the death of trees helps other plants to grow, the natural course of things 😉