Remote high elevation river valley with spruce and northern hardwoods forests.;Forest with scattered clumps of tall old spruce interspersed with yellow birch and black cherry. Cored T2 spruce ~190 yrs. Rotted remnants of sawn stump with yellow birch on top Giant Rhododendron is patchy here with an evident browse line, but just uphill becomes laurel hell. Increased diversity of mosses seems correlated with mixed deciduous evergreen physiognomy.
Representativeness
Represents polygon of mixed spruce-northern hardwoods