The falls is located in an area rich with mosses, eastern hemlock, and Rosebay Rhododendron.
In 1891, Fayette Shaw started a tannery in Rib Lake, which used tannic acid from locally harvested hemlock bark to tan hides from as far away as South America to make leather.
Tsuga | Tsuga canadensis | Tsuga heterophylla | Canadensis, Pennsylvania | Canadensis | Tsuga sieboldii | Tsuga chinensis | tsuga | Shepherdia canadensis | Papilio canadensis | Elodea canadensis | Camp Canadensis |
This Township is covered with timber The greater portion of which is Hemlock Y Birch Elm and Sugar.
Soil is principally 2nd Rate Timber Hemlock Birch Sugar White Pine Spruce and Fir and it is well watered by numerous Small Streams of pure water.
The larvae feed on a wide range of woody plants Fraxinus, Abies balsamea, Betula, Prunus virginiana, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus, Ribes uva-crispa, Acer and Salix species.
Heathdale - ericaceous and Appalachian Plants, including Catawba and Rosebay rhododendrons (Rhododendron catawbiense and R. maximum), azaleas (Rhododendron spp.), dog-hobble (Leucothoe fontanesiana), mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), as well as hemlock (Tsuga canadensis, T. caroliniana, and T. sieboldii), dogwoods (Cornus spp.