Vegetation Environmental

This community has a Picea glauca cover in the overstory of 30% with a mean age of 139.7 years. The seedlings of this type are solely Picea glauca. Picea mariana is an occasional associate. The shrub cover is 5% Alnus crispa. Picea is approximately 15 meters in height, and the Alnus was 3 to 5 meters in height. Salix glauca, Salix arbusculoides, Rosa acicularis and Viburnum edule also contributed to the shrub cover. The herbaceous cover is made up of Equisetum arvense (35%), Rubus arcticus (25%), Arctagrostis latifolia var. arundinacea (10%), Calamagrostis lapponica (10%), Cornus canadensis and Equisetum scirpoides. The feathermosses, Hylocomium splendens, Aulacomnium palustre, Pleurozium schreberi and Rhytidium rugosum dominate the nonvascular layer with a cumulative cover of 80%. Peltigera species and Cladonia species also contribute to the nonvascular cover. This type is more variable in species composition with greater canopy closure than C6.

The average altitude is 567 meters, and the mean slope is 6% with exposures predominantly south/southwest. The range in elevation is 198 to 1,021 meters, and the range in slope is 0% to 30%. The substrate of this type is 65% alluvial/colluvial, 30% older moraines.