Wilderness area. Upslope is upland spruce. Downslope opens up into ecotone of bog with scattered spruce then opens more to open bogs and successional beaver pond vegetation. Some margins have open Vaccinium hummocks.;Spruce woodland community on margin of large open boggy wetland. Community is narrow zone between upland spruce forest and a boggy area with scattered spruce. Hummocky microtopography with Vaccinium myrtilloides on hummocks and sphagnum in hollows. There are some larger spruce snags possibly from past seepage or beaver burns. Age/size class of trees becomes smaller as community becomes wetter. Shallow soils on sandstone.
Representativeness
Plot is narrow to capture zone of spruce, Vaccinium, with sphagnum and Carex trisperma in swales. Community extends out on spits but this plot is along a "cove" margin
