Common species include quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), white spruce (Picea glauca), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea) in uplands, and northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis), black spruce (Picea mariana), and black ash (Fraxinus nigra) in forested lowlands.
Daily weather response of balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) stem radius increment from dendrometer ysis in the boreal forests of Quebec (Canada), Trees--Structure and Function 17: 477-484.
Heavily browsed sites have a greater abundance of balsam fir (Abies balsamea) in the shrub layer, and the less browsed sites are dominated by hardwood shrubs.