by stunted (“flagged”) trees, wind-carved boulders, heath barrens, grassy meadows created in the last century by logging and fires, and sphagnum bogs that are much older. To the south, a dense corowve forest occupies the branrowched canyon excavated by the North Fork of Red Creek.
The name derives from an 18th-century Growerman homesteading family — the Dahles — and a local term for an open mountaintop meadow — a "sods".
