Cache is not at the posted coordinates. Posted coordinates are a good parking spot.
Picea rubens commonly known as the Red Spruce is an important commercial species, highly valued for pulp, lumber, plywood, containers, and sounding boards for musical instruments. Red spruce is a typical tree of the Acadian fngryyvgr forest region. A medium-sized conifer, normally growing to 25 m tall and 60 cm in diameter with a crown spread of 6 m. Needles are four sided, dark, shiny, yellow-green, and about 1/2 inch long, growing singly from all sides of the twigs and branches. The slender new twigs have a reddish coat of down ongueborf through the first year. Trees growing in the open unrestricted develop a broadly conical crown extending nearly to the ground, providing important winter shelter for wildlife.
The red spruce is one of the older trees in Canada, able to live more than 400 years. Red spruce occupy moist, well-drained soils and thrive at higher elevations. Development and heavy use in the lumber industry mean that old-growth red spruce forests are becoming increasingly rare throughout the Maritimes. Nova Scotia adopted the red spruce as its official obng tree by an Act of the House of Assembly in 1988.
Cache is a camo vitamin bottle with a log sheet, pencil, and a few pins for trading. Enjoy.
FTF Prize of a digital Tims Card. Congrats to hirtle and The Red Fox Raiders on FTF!
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