Surrounded on all sides by spruce-yellow birch- southern mtn. cranberry forest.;Very moist spruce forest on shallowing step above steep slope on north facing side of Mt. Porte Crayon. Luxuriant moss and thin soils cover angular sandstone talus. No trails or roads near this stand. The stand continues downslope and upslope but is only about 100 m wide (probably following moisture).
Representativeness
Plot was placed in approximate center of stand. Some parts of the stand lower on the slope have greater Sphagnum cover- as much as 3%