Taiga floodplain, Tanana River, Alaska. Primary succession from bare alluvial surface (left foreground), to open shrub stage (right). Closed-shrub alder with young balsam poplar extends through the closed canopy, (right, mid-distance) to mature white spruce (left background).
Taiga floodplain, Tanana River, Alaska
Post date:
Nov 6, 1999
Photo courtesy of:
L.A. Viereck