Yeah Ogdenburg doesn't get the traffic Alex Bay gets. Forestry, huh? Had to be Paul Smith's College, right? Yes we are right in the middle of the lake effect area. The Tug Hill plateau is just a few miles west of us on the opposite side of the Black River valley. Our side of the river is sandy soil and the other side of the river is heavy loam to clay type soils. Our land is peppered with granite boulders and the west side of the river is all shale bedrock.