Colorado mountains
From Long-Term Data to Understanding: Toward a Predictive Ecology
2015 LTER ASM Estes Park, CO - August 30 - September 2, 2015
 

ASM Day 2 sunrise- the Long view

Submitted by: wdbowman

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Sunrise from the bottom of Trail Ridge Road looking toward Long's Peak and Mount McHenry.  The diversity of ecosystem types includes mountain grassland/ sagebrush shrub, Ponderosa Pine Forest (upper montane), lodgepole pine, spruce-fir forest, and alpine tundra.