Adirondack Hardwood Conifer

Red spruce and balsam fir.

Adirondack hardwood conifer.

Striped skunk mephitis. American beech and sugar maple are the most tolerant hardwood species in our area. Mixed wood forests contain both conifers with needle like or scale like leaves and hardwoods deciduous trees that cope with the long harsh winters by dropping their leaves at the end of the growing season. About 100 native species of trees are present in the adirondack mountains.

Mixed wood forest on the jenkins mountain trail at the paul smith s college vic 12 august 2013. A listing of mammals found in the adirondack park of upstate new york and their habitat and distribution within the adirondacks. Adirondack conifer forests are dominated by two conifer species. A forest community not typically recognized in most descriptions of adirondack vegetation is the upper slope hardwood conifer forest.

Most common at low to mid elevations. This community is very similar to the mixedwood type except red maple is lacking and sugar maple and american beech are more common than in the lower slope hardwood conifer type. Upper slope hardwood conifer. Conifer swamps lowland conifer and mountain conifer forests at.

Red spruce picea rubens is a medium sized evergreen conifer that grows in cool boreal forests of the northeast including the adirondack mountains. Both species are found in other ecological communities in the adirondack park including mixed forests and wetlands. The eastern white pine a canopy tree is one of the signature trees of the adirondacks. The different forest communities which characterize the adirondacks are highlighted in early spring after snow melt and before leaf out the dark greens of conifers near the marshy shore give way to a mix of hardwoods and conifers as the elevation increases followed by an area of northern hardwoods followed by a summit of dark green conifers.

The eastern white pine at the paul smiths vic. Wooded farmland conifer swamps lowland conifer mixed and hardwood forests.