Mixed spruce-fir and northern hardwood forest
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Caroline Dougherty
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Aug 14, 2015 01:42 PM
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By Brian Stansberry (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Mixed spruce-fir and northern hardwood forest on the upper western slope of Waterrock Knob (el. 6,292ft/1,918m) in the Plott Balsams of Western North Carolina, USA. This view is from a cliff just off the Waterrock Knob Trail. The dead trees are Fraser firs killed by the balsam woolly adelgid.
