Vegetation Of New England And The Maritime Provinces
The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England in the northeast United States and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada.
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