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Horsebridge Wood: Rocky Mountain

This province is mainly coniferous forest in which the mixture of species changes the higher up the mountains they grow. In the foothills, there's scrub oak and ponderosa pine. Then come the mountain and sub-alpine species, such as Engelmann spruce which thrives in cold humid conditions. In the Rockies, it grows right up to the tree line - the altitude above which no trees can grow - and is valued for its wood, much in demand for sounding boards in pianos and violins.

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