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USGS Aerial Photos of the
Range Pond State Park area
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Images from years 1949
- 1998 were digitally photographed from USGS aerial photos. Access
to photos courtesy of the USDA Service Center, Lewiston, Maine.
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Series: 1949 Image 1
Location: Range Ponds area, near Poland
Spring, Maine. Rectangle drawn on image may be property boundary
at that time.
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Series: 1949 Image 2
Location: Closer view of study area in
Plains Road area, Poland, Maine. Rectangle drawn on image may
be property boundary at that time.
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Series: 1964 Image 3
Location: View of study area in Plains
Road area, Poland, Maine.
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Series: 1980 Image 4
Location: View of study area in Plains
Road area, Poland, Maine. Range Pond State Park is newly formed
in this image. The beach can be seen in the lower right corner,
and a loop road to camping areas is near the center.
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Series: 1992 Image 5
Location: Broad view of the Range Ponds
area, Poland, Maine. The change in land use is apparent in the
park area. The old railroad bed running along the pond north
shore has largely been overgrown, but is still visible. Note
the alteration of roads at the confluence of Bailey Hill Road
and Plains Roads since the 1949 image was taken.
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Series: 1992 Image 6
Location: Closer view of the study area.
Note the canopy density in the study site area (between circle
access road and Plains Road) and the prominence of the largepines
bordering Plains Road along the study site.
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Series: 1998 Image 7
Location: Closer view of the study area.
This series was taken after the Ice Storm of '98. Note the reduction
in tree growth in the upper right half of the image as compared
to the 1992 image 6 and the decrease in canopy density in the
vicinity of the study area. At this time the mature canopy and
subcanopy white pines were dying as a result of the Ice Storm
damage and drought periods (likely caused white pine decline)
in the mid-90's. By 2005 the total mortality of white pine in
this area reached 60-65% of the subcanopy-canopy height pines.
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Series: 1998 Image 8
Location: Wide view of the Range Ponds
area. This series was taken after the Ice Storm of '98. Note
the esxpansion of Lower Range Pond due to damming at its outlet
as compared to the 1949 Image 1 and 1964 Image 3 photos.
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Nov 2006 - Photo by Eben Sypitkowski,
Bates College
Location: General view of northeast border
of Range Pond State Park including the study site area. Image
made several months following the implementation of the Demonstration
Forest Project (Dept. of Concservation - Bureau of Parks
and Lands) which thinned the pine stands along the northern side
of the park.
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May 2010 - Google Earth Image
Location: General view of the study site
area with fully leafed canopy in May 2010.
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