When I first started working for the BC Forest Service, I was a bit amazed that they had maps that showed what species of trees were covering what areas of our entire forest district. These maps had been produced by studying air photos and picking out the different types of trees. I thought of those timber type maps the other day when we were driving home from town.
All of the snow that has fallen, dramatically emphasis the different types of trees on the mountain slopes, particularly between the conifers and the deciduous trees. The conifers (in this case, Fir, Spruce, and Balsam) are the pointy ones that are holding a lot of snow, and the deciduous (aspens and birch) appear more like grass.
As I have mentioned before, snow generally doesn’t stick around on the trees for long in the Robson Valley, because the wind usually comes along and knocks it off.
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