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Graveyard Fields
Extensive logging in the early 1900s removed vast stands of timber from this valley.   Large piles of waste-slash were left
behind from the harvest.   Wildfires swept through the area, devastating the entire valley, and heating the soil enough to
sterilize it.   The charred stumps were reminiscent of tombstones in a graveyard, hence the name.   Even today, larger
forest growth has difficulty growing in the soil, although some trees and shrubs are slowly beginning to fill in the area.

Views from the trailhead - parking area into Graveyard Fields.

Foot bridge over Yellowstone Prong

Upstream view from the bridge

Downstream view

Shooting a pic

The Prong disappears over the lip of the upper section of Second Falls.

Small branch creek

Second Falls:

Setting up the tripod

A few Second Falls sectional details:

View down Yellowstone Prong, below the Falls

Goldenrod on red blueberry leaves

Fence Rail

Berries

Assorted images along the trail, showing the stunted but colorful vegetation:

Asters

Shooting the previous and next pics...

Pipevine Swallowtail on the Aster

Multi-trunks

View back into valley after return to trailhead.

Hawksbill Trail	Linville Gorge	Roan Highlands	Waterfall Collection
Botanical Gardens	Blue Ridge Pkwy I	Blue Ridge Pkwy II	Brevard vicinity
Deerwoode Lodge	Black Balsam	Graveyard Fields	Assorted Other NC

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