Within Cranberry Wilderness. Part of a very large stand of red spruce covering the west ridge of Black Mtn. Other spruce types on ridge are over southern mountain cranberry, hay-scented fern, or Bazzania moss;Cut stumps in the plot. Mossy hummocks on down wood and old roots, in mature second-growth spruce/rhododendron forest.
Representativeness
Along North-South Trail, plot placed in Spruce/Rhododendron section of trail.