Lampson Falls in an officially named waterfall on the USGS GNIS data base. The falls about about 40 ft high and 100 ft wide. The area is a genuine, natural beauty. I chose this photo because it's a great example of a porcupine track. Porcupines often use the same trail to move in the same direction, so the tracks look like tunnels. Because they travel on the same path it is common to see urine and pieces of hemlock branches (the porcupine's favorite food!) scattered along the trail.

As I stated in another post, we trekked around Lampson Falls one day and I stopped to take this picture of the frozen falls in the winter. I think it gives a neat perspective, from a diagonal view. The Lampson Falls trail provides a nice, relatively easy nature walk along in a soft-wooded habitat. Once arriving at the falls, one can swim, canoe, fish, and even white-water kayak. Located in the Grass River Forest, in the St. Lawrence Country, in a town called Clare, Lampson is a .6 mile walk until arrival at the falls.

During our adventure in Lampson Falls for our lab on February 18th, we saw many animal tracks. Deep within the softwood forest, I saw white-tailed deer tracks scattered around. This pair of animal tracks stuck out to me in particular because it was crisp and seemed to be relatively fresh tracks in the snow. I wondered if the deer had just passed through before us five minutes earlier. White-tailed deer are a medium-sized deer located in the United States, Canada, and in Central and South America.

Lampson Falls New, York is the spot that many different species have enjoyed life in the North country. As i hiked the Lampson Falls trail something which really impressed me was how visible the different species were. If you look closely at this picture you can see a porcupine climbing up a large pine tree. Something that is very interesting about this picture is the route taken to find this porcupine. Our natural world history class followed the tracks of this porcupine. We then saw porcupine needles, looked up the tree and sure enough the animal was climbing higher and higher.

Lampson Falls is a beautiful spot in the North Country. This impressive Falls and trail has been enjoyed for many years by different species. The beautiful 40 feet tall 100 feet wide trail makes the 15 minute hike through the falls worth it. This picture depicts the front of Lampson Falls through a cold winter February day. What interest me about this picture is that although you can see frozen parts of the falls you can also tell that the falls is flowing down the river.

river/ forest habitat

River habitat

Deciduous Forrest/ River environment

This photo depicts movement of water as it descends in a waterfall from higher to lower elevation. These falls are 40 ft tall and 100 ft wide. In this specific photo, taken in mid-February, much of the water was still frozen, but there was still large amounts of water flowing. These falls were most likely formed as a result of water flowing over different layers of rocks which have different erosion patterns. Over time the earth underneath the water gets steeper and steeper until, eventually, a falling out may occur (which causes the drop).

This a picture of the water moving in Lampson Falls; I liked this picture because you can really see how flooded the river is right now; when I took the picture I was standing as close to the falls as possible. Lampson Falls is one of the most frequently visited falls in the North Country. These falls are an estimated 40 feet tall and 100 feet wide. These falls can be described as shallow and broad faced; during the spring there is a high volume of water caused by melting snow.