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subalpine fir

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Noun1.subalpine fir - medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crownsubalpine fir - medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown
Abies lasiocarpa, Alpine fir
silver fir - any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At 2,750 meters, about the altitude of major ski resorts like Jackson Hole (Wyoming), Aspen (Colorado), and Banff's Lake Louise (Alberta), the landscape transitions to subalpine forest, where typically a mix of Engleman spruce and subalpine fir provides habitat for species such as the yellow-bellied marmot and the snowshoe hare.
Portraits of climate change: the Rocky Mountains by Barrera, Lina / World Watch
The champion subalpine fir sits in the heart of the Olympic Peninsula, near a postcard-perfect mountain pond called Cream Lake.
An Olympic undertaking: in the holy grail of arborism, in search of a ... by Williams, Tyler / American Forests
A forest dominated by mountain hemlock and subalpine fir covers most areas between 1000 m and 1700 m asl (Brooke et al.
Environmental change in Garibaldi Provincial Park, Southern Coast ... by Osborn, Gerald D. / Geoscience Canada
 
 
 
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