Red Spruce
It is mostly red spruce, mixed with balsam fir, that makes up the vast northern spruce-fir forest, occupying about 11 million acres of northern New England and New York. Farther south in New England, red spruce grows on cold mountain tops or in cold depressions, with sugar maple and other hardwoods tending to win out where it’s warmer and soils are less acidic.
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