Excerpt from Status and Management of Southern Appalachian Mountain Balds: Proceedings of a Workshop, November 5-7, 1981, Crossnore, North CarolinaHigh mountains throughout the world are capped with vegetation devoid of trees, even at the equator one can climb above forest on mountains. Many.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.