The half-mile trail offers panoramic Lake Superior and Marquette County views from three observation decks, with two route options taking just 15-30 minutes to reach the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain.

Our biomes - the boreal forest and deciduous forest Sue Pike One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H.

Our biomes - the boreal forest and deciduous forest Sue Pike One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H.

He is pointing above the trees in this boreal forest, where migrating songbirds sing, ... The hill over there, Bruce is saying, is Thunder Mountain. "They say that is where the thunderbird lives.

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Just below the treeline, at around 3,500 to 4,500 feet, we enter the boreal forest. “Standing here, we’re connected to all the Earth’s northern forests around the globe,” says Dave.

Of the many good reasons to visit Blue Job Mountain, one of the most compelling for me is that it is where two different biomes - the boreal forest and the temperate deciduous forest - meet.