Extensive spruce forests on ridgetop, some dryer than this plot, rockier more exposed sites have woodland physiognomy.;Broad high elevation forest of Picea rubens with Vaccinium erythrocarpum and Dryopteris campyloptera in the understory. Shrub layer not well developed possibly due to deer herbivory. Many trees with elevated root sytems, started on nurse logs now decomposed.
Representativeness
Matrix spruce forest of broad high elevation ridgetop.