Photographs of Old Growth
Red Spruce on the Chebucto Peninsula

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Posted 1 Oct. 2009.
Updated 3 Nov. 2009.

These photos are posted to complement
an article to be published in The Bridge (November, 2009)
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red spruce

Panorama

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Panorama from well up The Climbing Tree, Aug. 12. That's Lower Trout Lake in the distance. Trees that tower above the rest are red spruce.


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The Climbing Tree (32" dbh)

Lower Trout Lake Area

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Looking northwest across Trout Lake
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Close-up; deciduous forest on the upland
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Shoreline on south side of Lower Trout Lake
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Large red spruce on slope to lake
photoBank on south side of lake; dense fir; black spruce; paper birch, red maple; some large red spruce photoBase of large red spruce; note absence of moss in litter area by base of the tree. photo
Large, older fallen dead wood of this sort was not common.

Select Sites

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Site 1 Tree #4 (28" dbh)
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Site 1 Tree#6 (24" (dbh)
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Site 1, Tree # 8, 3-split above (23")
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Site 1, Replaceent tree # 5 (8" dbh) & firs
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Site 1: old stump
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Site 1: red spruce snag
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Site 1: Replacement red spruce (9") and old, cut logs
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Site 2: tree#3 (25")

Forest Floor

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Site of old bear scat: dead moss & 3 witherod seedlings
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Above: lichen covered rock
Right: Large fallen dead tree covered with moss and vegetation
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Blowdown Area

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Top right: birch seedling in recently exposed soil Right: stump and logs
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Lichens on Red Maple

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lichens lichens

Fir Forest outside of the Crown land

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At left: old stump of a large tree, likely red spruce

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