Preface | p. 5 |
Introduction | p. 7 |
History of Exploration | p. 8 |
Geology | p. 11 |
Weather & Climate | p. 17 |
From the Trailheads - an Ecological Hike Up the Mountain | p. 19 |
The Northern Hardwood Forest & Transition Zones | p. 19 |
The Spruce-Fir Forest Zone | p. 22 |
The Balsam Fir Forest Zone | p. 24 |
Into the Krummholz | p. 26 |
The Alpine Zone | p. 29 |
Treeline | p. 29 |
Those Amazing Alpine Plants | p. 30 |
Herbaceous Plants | p. 33 |
Trees & Shrubs | p. 45 |
Clubmosses & Ferns | p. 55 |
Grasses, Sedges, & Rushes | p. 56 |
Mosses, Liverworts, & Lichens | p. 59 |
Adaptations of Alpine Plants | p. 65 |
Alpine Plant Communities | p. 69 |
Animals of the Alpine Zone | p. 79 |
Birds | p. 79 |
Amphibians | p. 84 |
Mammals | p. 85 |
Insects | p. 88 |
Conservation | p. 91 |
Success Story-Dwarf Cinquefoil | p. 91 |
Summit Stewards | p. 94 |
Phenology & Mountain Plant Monitoring | p. 95 |
Mountain Watch Programs | p. 98 |
Flowering Chart to Use for Alpine Plants | p. 100 |
Index to Illustrated Species | p. 102 |
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