Dolly Sods Wilderness 📍

After a rather cloudy morning at Dolly Sods, things cleared out. Exploring the western part of sods is interesting, it is much more like around Canaan Heights then the eastern portion which is mostly heath barren.

The heath barrens of Dolly Sods. Once an old-growth forest, after it was logged at the turn of century, it became ravaged by decades of fires and became over time permanently huckleberry plains or heath barrens.

The cold and wind, along with loss of organic matter made it impossible for full forests to regrow, giving it the characteristic landscape of Northern Canada or Alaska tundra.

A beaver lodge along the Harman Trail at Dolly Sods Wilderness.