e/Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest

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has gloss	eng: The Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest is a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in the highest elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. The southern spruce-fir forest is the highest and coldest forest ecosystem in the Appalachian range, thriving in elevations above where the climate is too harsh to support the broad-leaved hardwood forest that dominates the region's lower elevations. A relic of the last Ice Age, this forest type covers just over , and is considered the second-most endangered ecosystem in the United States.
lexicalization	eng: Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest
instance of	(noun) a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains

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