somewhat higher land of the central and eastern parts, the tolerant hardwoods prevail and the conifers are conspicuous mainly in narrow belts along the streams; red spruce and eastern hemlock on lower slopes, white spruce and balsam fir on valley flats, black spruce and tamarack in peaty depressions. White spruce invades easily on disturbed land, and it is characteristic on old fields and fence rows. Eastern white pine is widespread on the coarser-textured soils, but jack pine is uncommon. The most adaptable and best-growing forest trees seem to be white spruce, balsam fir and yellow birch, but these as well as the other species require shelter from the sea winds in order to attain merchantable size.

The topography is gentle, the relief low. Horizontally stratified sandstones and conglomerates of Permo-Carboniferous age underlie the well—drained mantle of red loams and sandy loams. The soils though humo—ferric podzols are relatively fertile.

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Figure 3. Rowe’s Acadian Forest Region showing the boundaries of his thirteen Forest Sections (labelled 1 to 13). Section 8 consists entirely of Prince Edward Island. (The above map is a photocopy from a map ’Forest Regions of Canada 1972’ which accompanies Rowe’s 1972 report - the map was compiled in 1956 and was prepared to accompany the 1959 edition.)

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