What shaped the great Adirondack forest into what it is today?

Very often in the spring right after ice-out we would fish Long Pond in the backwoods south of Indian Lake. It was one of the best brook trout ponds in the area.
On many of our trips we would see large chunks of white aspen with the bark chewed off during the winter floating around in the pond. The beaver were there because of the aspen and the aspen was there because of a forest fire at the pond around 1900.

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