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One result is that forest fires are more frequent on southfacing slopes.
Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest - Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Southeast - and southfacing slopes are notably warmer and drier than northwest - and northfacing slopes, because they face the sun and are on the lee side of the ridges.
Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest - Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Inland, the southfacing mountain slopes are covered by mixed forest, including tanoak, coast live oak, madrone, and Douglas-fir.
California Coastal Steppe, Mixed Forest, and Redwood Forest Province (Bailey) 2009
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White spruce forests occur on southfacing gravelly moraines, and cottonwood-tall bush communities are common on large floodplains.
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Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, and aspen cover north-facing slopes and flatter uplands, while southfacing slopes support mountain big sagebrush and mountain shrubs.
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The forest consistently appears on northfacing slopes and on wetter sites; chaparral occupies southfacing slopes and drier sites.
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Black spruce forest vegetation grows at higher elevations, on all northfacing slopes in the south, on all but steep southfacing slopes in the north, and on lower slopes with impeded soil drainage throughout the area.
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Permafrost is continuous on northfacing slopes, discontinuous on southfacing ones.
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Forests of white spruce, paper birch, and quaking aspen cover most lower slopes in the south and southfacing slopes in the north.
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The major river bottoms support dense white spruce - cottonwood-poplar forests on floodplains and southfacing slopes up to about 1,000 ft (300 m).
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