Above 1,350 m, spruce-fir forests develop and dominate the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests] Reference

Perhaps the most notable forest types are cove hardwood and spruce-fir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States] Reference

About 75% of all Southern Appalachian spruce-fir occurs within the park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States] Reference

The spruce-fir forest pictured is in the West Elk Mountains wilderness area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference

The ashy soil holds moisture during the dry season and supports a productive spruce-fir forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference

The scarp cliffs support a mixed deciduous and spruce-fir forest which becomes stunted in higher areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gros Morne National Park, Canada] Reference

However, fires that occur in the pine-spruce and spruce-fir forests usually cause more damage and changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Federation] Reference

The spruce-fir forests and portions of the mixed oak forest were subject to intensive logging in the early 1900's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests] Reference

Vegetation here is mostly spruce-fir with some patches of maple, beech, and birch, and the soils are predominantly Spodosols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference

Today, two kinds of needleleaf forests persist in the North—spruce-fir and pine—and both are as hardy as their ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

In the last glacial age, the spruce-fir forests of the Lake States and New England were herded from their homes by the bulldozer of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

This mountainous region is in the transition zone between the boreal spruce-fir forest to the north and the deciduous forest to the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adirondack-New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

The subalpine spruce-fir zone is not as heavily grazed by livestock as mid-elevation areas; it serves as summer range for mule deer and elk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)] Reference

The high-elevation spruce-fir forests of 66i are buffeted by higher winds, colder temperatures, and greater precipitation than lower elevations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)] Reference

In the southern parts of its range, Bicknell's thrush occupies spruce-fir krummholz forest, which is generally found above 915 meters in Vermont.    From Wordnik.com.  [New England-Acadian forests] Reference

Remnants of that exodus can still be found on the highest, coolest peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, where a band of spruce-fir forest still grows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

It is the most floristically diverse ecoregion of the state, and includes Appalachian oak forests, northern hardwoods, and Southeastern spruce-fir forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)] Reference

The potential natural vegetation is mapped as southwestern spruce-fir and pine-Douglas-fir forest and is distinct from that of lower and higher ecoregions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)] Reference

Golden-mantled squirrels inhabit the region's ponderosa pine forests, and snowshoe hares along with red squirrels are found throughout the spruce-fir forests of Utah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevada-Utah Mountains Semidesert - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

In China, boundaries were formed according to CVMCC vegetation classes of temperate deciduous oaks (class 14a, Manchurian oak), with spruce-fir forests at higher altitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manchurian mixed forests] Reference

It is one of the most floristically diverse ecoregions, and includes Appalachian oak forests, northern hardwoods, and, at the highest elevations, Southeastern spruce-fir forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference

Boughs of spruce-fir formed no contemptible couches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada] Reference

Its banks were clothed with spruce-fir and dense underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land] Reference

Tracking tarantulas: Smokies biologist surveying spruce-fir moss spider.    From Wordnik.com.  [KnoxViews] Reference

The bunnies like spruce-fir groves and can be found throughout the Bighorn Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [billingsgazette.com] Reference

Cheenbuk retired to a neighbouring spruce-fir and stretched himself under its branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference

Besides these, there was another tree or shrub of the spruce-fir kind, but it was very small.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference

The spruce budworm has long been recognized as a regular component of Maine's spruce-fir forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [BangorDailyNews.com > News] Reference

We found one nest on the 15th June, about twenty feet up a spruce-fir at the extremity of the bough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

Sampling the fare at 31 sushi bars, century to create the conditions that killed the spruce-fir Ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Can I have an endangered animal as a pet?] Reference

` It's a twin roar to the one he gave that day when he mistook Hairy Sam for a grizzly b'ar, an 'went up a spruce-fir like a squirrel.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Bought] Reference

The phantom ring of mist enclosing for miles the invariable low-sweeping dark spruce-fir kept her thoughts on them as close as the shroud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

In the mountains, below spruce-fir zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Spruce-fir, 239, 272, 275, 277.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Spruce-fir communities in, 275, 277.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Spruce-fir forests, 239, 272, 275, 277.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference