Fairly large spruce polygon with thick S1 spruce doghair which was fought through to get to the more open center. Downslope is abrupt transition to northern hardwoods forest.;Mountaintop spruce forest with very low diversity. Vegetation consists of even-aged spruce canopy with abundant spruce regeneration in the short shrub layer over a thick carpet of Bazzania trilobata. Thick duff layer under the Bazzania forming rounded hummocks over rock, wood, and roots. Stand age about 80-100 yrs. Picea rubens cored: 61, 79 and 93 years old.
Representativeness
Polygon of "mature" spruce on USFS layer. Plot placed in opening to facilitate sampling. Doghair spruce understory surrounds this more open central core.