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Transition from Northern Hardwoods to Spruce-fir Forest
Credit
- Creator
- Dirk Frankenberg
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1999. All Rights Reserved
About this image
- Format: Photograph
- Date created: 1999
- Location: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina
- File: JPEG (139 KB)
- Sizes available: 1024×768 | 450×338
See this photograph in context
- Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway: A Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” that explores the great diversity of forests in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. (Page 14)
- Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 2.1)
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- Read our support article about using the multimedia library.
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