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Foliage and cones. Red spruce is a perennial, [8] shade-tolerant, late successional [9] coniferous tree that under optimal conditions grows to 18–40 m (59–131 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of about 60 cm (24 in), though exceptional specimens can reach 46 m (151 ft) tall and 100 cm (39 inches) in diameter.
The more southerly section of the Dolly Sods Wilderness includes maturing spruce copses, rhododendron thickets, northern hardwoods on the ridges and cove hardwoods in the deep tributaries of Red Creek. There are patches of recovering native red spruce forest plus twisted yellow birch, sugar and red maple, eastern hemlock, and black cherry.
Apr. 16—FINZEL SWAMP — A project that began with the killing of some trees aims to help thousands of new saplings survive. In the fall, The Nature Conservancy and Allegany College of Maryland ...
Spruce-fir forests occur at the highest elevations, above 3,200 feet (980 m). Their environment is cool and wet, with frequent fog and precipitation. Red spruce ( Picea rubens ) and Fraser fir ( Abies fraseri ) dominate the forest canopy.
The first step towards riparian forest restoration should be the establishment of riparian reserves. The second step is to restore channel complexity. The third step is to apply silvicultural treatments to restore large conifers. The large conifer species would be western red cedar Thuja plicata and western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla. These ...
“By making tests on the stumps sticking out of the buried forest, scientists figured out the spruce forest was ground down by the ice 11,400 years ago,” the news article said. “The new date ...
Red Spruce, Balsam fir, Beech, Yellow birch, Sugar maple, Paper birch: New Hampshire: Hemenway State Forest [42] 135 acres (55 ha) [42] New England-Acadian forests: Eastern White Pine [42] New Hampshire: The Bowl Research Natural Area [41] 510 acres (210 ha) New England-Acadian forests: Red Spruce, Balsam fir, Beech, Yellow birch, Sugar maple ...
The GSA contains—in addition to red spruce—excellent first and second-growth specimens of several native hardwoods, including red maple, sugar maple, yellow birch, and beech. [1] Forest Service authorities estimate the total wood volume of the 140-acre (570,000 m 2 ) tract at 1,500,000 board feet (3,500 m 3 ).