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PA 8. Pine Swamp. Acreage: 700. 



Location: Mercer County; Sandy Lake Quadrangle; 5 miles SW of Sandy Lake 

 between Rt. 62 and Rt. 173. 



Description: Swamp forest surrounds a central core dominated by a shrub bog. 

 The center comprises some 60 acres covered with mossy hummocks and 

 Gaultheria, Aronia melanocarpa. Viburnum lentago, and Vaccinium. Aspen and 

 white pine are associated. The fringing area supports an abundance of Sphag- 

 num, cranberry, and Woodwardia virginica (very rare in western Pa.). Surround- 

 ing woods vary from aspen swamp forest to swamp forests of oak, maple, and 

 elm, a mature beech-hemlock forest and an extensive open marsh. 



Ownership: Private. 



Data source: Dr. Kimball S. Erdman, Department of Biology, Slippery Rock 

 State College, Slippery Rock, Pa. 16057. 



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