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Northern Piedmont

Ecoregion in Appalachian Mountains in VT, NH

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Topographically, most of the Northern Piedmont is expressed as a broad undulating plateau, smoothed by glacial activity and dissected by streams. Several glacial features, such as the Lyndonville and Danville moraines and the Passumpsic Valley esker, have resisted erosion and are still clearly visible. While rolling, calcareous metamorphic low hills are typical, there are also some distinct high hills on granitic plutons. The climate of Ecoregion 58l is somewhat colder than that in western and southern Vermont and New Hampshire. January low temperatures are lower than in most of the Green Mountains (58c) or the Vermont Piedmont (58f) to the south, and

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Eastern White Pine Pinus strobus (species), “Weymouth Pine”, “Soft Pine”, “Northern White Pine”

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