The Olympics are also home to the biggest western hemlock, subalpine and Pacific silver fir, Alaska-cedar, and Englemana spruce. |
From under the granular crust of a subalpine snowfield sprang forth life as tender and fresh as a butterfly's newly unfolded wings. |
The study area is subalpine tundra, and primary vegetation is shrubby willow. |
Subalpine forest has subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and mountain ash. |
Whitebark pines are what silviculturists term a keystone species of upper subalpine ecosystems. |
In Washington, they are typically found in lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock, subalpine fir, whitebark pine, and Engleman spruce. |