Other spruce polygons in area are plantations and additional conifer photo signature is red pine plantation. There are large openings and cemetaries on this mountain top indicating history of agricultural land use.;Broad plateau-like mountain top dissected by headwater streams. Community is a forest of tall, well spaced Picea rubens with lots of down logs in various stages of decomposition. There is a subcanopy and tall shrub layer with patchy dominance by doghair spruce or deciduous trees. Deep organic horizon in soil.
Representativeness
Polygon of "old" spruce on USFS layer. Plot includes patches of doghair spruce, canopy gap, and deciduous subcanopy which seems to typify the larger polygon.