Editing Mount Greylock (section)

==Forests and birds==
[[File:Picea rubens UGA.jpg|thumb|[[Red spruce]] on Mount Greylock]]
[[File:New England Aster on Mount Greylock.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|New England aster on Mount Greylock]]

[[Northern hardwood forest]] characterize lower and mid-elevations, while upper slopes are covered with [[balsam fir]] and [[red spruce]] as well as American mountain ash.  About {{convert|555|acre|ha|abbr=off}} of [[old growth]] forest have been inventoried within the Greylock Range, including tree specimens up to 350 years old. On the western slope was a {{convert|120|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} red spruce.<ref name="dcr3">{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-west/mount-greylock-state-reservation-nature-and-science.html |title=Nature and Science |work=MassParks: Mount Greylock State Reservation |publisher=Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Department of Conservation and Recreation |access-date=July 20, 2013}}</ref><ref name="OldGrowthEastUS">{{cite web|url=http://www.primalnature.org/ogeast/survey.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525035919/http://www.primalnature.org/ogeast/survey.html|archive-date=May 25, 2011|title=Old Growth in the East: A Survey |access-date=December 31, 2008 |author=Mary Byrd Davis |date=January 23, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

There are purported records of 132 bird species on the mountain. These include the [[blackpoll warbler]] and [[Bicknell's thrush]] which breed exclusively in boreal forest, with limited opportunities elsewhere in Massachusetts.<ref name="ebird">{{Cite web|url=http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?step=saveChoices&getLocations=hotspots&parentState=US-MA&bMonth=01&bYear=1900&eMonth=12&eYear=2012&reportType=location&hotspots=L207392&continue.x=46&continue.y=10|title=Explore Data|last=ebird|website=ebird.org|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>