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Taconic Foothills

Ecoregion in Appalachian Mountains in NY, VT

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Located between the Hudson Valley (59i) of New York and the Taconic Mountains (58a), the Taconic Foothills ecoregion is transitional between lowland and highland. The rolling hills contain a mosaic of woodland, pasture, and some minor cropland. Elevations of the small portion of the region in Vermont are mostly 350 to 1000 feet. Bedrock is composed of metamorphosed mudstones, slate, phyllite, and schist, with some minor lenses of limestone. Loamy and coarse-loamy, mesic Inceptisols are common. Appalachian oak-hickory forests are typical on the lower and drier slopes, with some beech-maple mesic forests. Especially in the southern part of the region in New York, presettlement forests had a greater proportion of white oak, black oak and hickories, and forests once dominated by American chestnut. The present dominance of chestnut oak, red maple, white pine, and sugar maple is likely due to recolonization after farming and timber cutting. Although oaks grow as far north as the Champlain Lowlands (83b), northern hardwood forests become more prominent in the northern parts of Ecoregion 58x.

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