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A mountain, anywhere in the world, tells an interesting tale of great events in the past, and every day is enacting a living story of life in the present. On a mountain we can see life zones –the areas related to climate and altitude which show characteristics and also serve as the home of typical animals of the area. A film trip up Mt. Washington will take you from the Canadian life zone at the foot of the Presidential range in New Hampshire showing the beech, birch and maple growth which gives way up the mountain to the fir and spruce. Then you enter another zone, the Hudsonian. This is a broad tension area between Arctic and Canadian zones where spruce and willow grow stunted and form low tangles of mat-like growth. When you enter the Arctic-alpine region there is an island in the sky of small alpine plants. There are no trees, only low shrubby willows, heaths, flowers, grasses, sedges, and lichens. Along with the film, diagrams and a miniature mountain will illustrate the fun of marking out studying life zones.
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