Appalachian Mountain Dreams

Whiteface Mountain – Alpine Garden Ecology Video

This segment describes alpine garden ecology in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Includes a description of cirques and arêtes on Whiteface Mountain, artifacts of glaciers that moved through the high peaks region. Alpine wildflowers include blue gentian and mountain sandwort. Excerpted from the television documentary “Footprints of the Ice Age: the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Upstate New York”

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