Mixed woods.

Conifers.

Effects of fire.

flat topography and low elevation, maple occurs generally throughout, although in other parts of the Section it is more confined to the higher and better-drained positions [Macoun 1894]. Mixedwood associations probably make up the largest portion of the forest cover, and are mainly composed of yellow birch, red spruce, sugar maple, beech, hemlock, white pine, wire birch, red maple, and some balsam fir. Red pine is found on gravelly soils, but jack pine does not appear to be present to any extent. Black spruce is found both in the general mixture and also growing with cedar, tamarack, and white birch on swampy portions. White spruce is generally scattered, of greater representation probably towards the upper portion of the St. John River valley, with a tendency to come in on abandoned fields and in river-valleys. Fires increase the proportion of white birch, aspen, large-toothed aspen, and wire birch. Good development of white elm is found in the river- valleys, especially that of the middle part of the St. John, and black and white ash are present on rich bottom-lands.

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HALLIDAY’S REFERENCES: FERNOW, B. E., HOWE, C. D., & WHITE, J. H. (1912) Forest Conditions of Nova Scot/a. Canada Commission of

Conservation.

MACOUN, J. (1894) Forests of Canada and their distribution. Proc. Royal Soc. of Canada, sec. iv, p. 3. WEAVER , J. E. & CLEMENTS, F. E. (1929) Plant Ecology. New York.

Figure 2. Halliday’s Acadian Forest Region showing the boundaries of his seven Forest Sections (labelled A-1 to A-7). The Central Section (A—4) includes Prince Edward Island. (The above map is a photocopy derived from the map accompanying Halliday’s report.)

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