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These rather large Red Spruce trees have succumbed to acid pollution and other factors. Greater than 50% of the larger spruces near the summit left standing are dead. These are merely a small fragment of the forest that once cloaked the high ridges. Blackberry bushes take advantage of the openings and crowd around the base of the dead trees.