Other spruce types in polygon include spruce/ kalmia forest and spruce woodland-- all of it appears even aged and relativly young.;Small swale with large boulders on a high, rolling mountain top. Community is a forest of medium aged spruce wide, some red maple and yellow birch over a dense thicket of giant rhododendron. Very difficult to traverse. Herb diversity and cover are very low. Cored tree about 100 yrs with slow growth in recent years.
Representativeness
Small patch in mesic microsite of a larger heterogeneous polygon (USFS Spruce layer)