Although soil and ground cover surface is damp hydrologically it is quite dry with swamps and flowages that have always had surface water during past 10 years now dry.  Some increase in traffic due to deer season about to begin. Logging and home construction activity strong.  A cold, dry winter will allow loggers to hit wet areas not accessible for the past warm decade if it occurs.  Vegetation in winter condition after first transient snow cover and temps down to 17.