Approximately 18,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age reached its peak, spruce–fir forests covered much of the southeastern United States, stretching westward to Missouri and as far south as Louisiana, while the deciduous forests were restricted to a few refuges in the coastal plains.

Old-Growth spruce-fir forest. Picea, Tsuga. Bazzania. Virgin Spruce. David Hunter Strother.

Virgin timber, primeval forest, forest primæval

Allegheny Plateau, Southern Appalachian Temperate Rainforest, Great Smoky Mountains, Mount Sterling, Clingmans Dome, Mount Guyot, Black Mountains, Mount Mitchell, Great Balsam Mountains, Plott Balsams, He-balsam, She-balsam

panoramic painting, engraving, etching, lithograph, woodcut, highly detailed, deep color, 8k, volumetric lighting

photo, photograph, photography

watermark, grainy, signature, draft, letters, words, numbers, copyright, sepia, brownish, brown, browned, yellowed

watermark, signature, letters, words, numbers, copyright, caption

browning, yellowing, sepia, faded

fall colors

cool colors

framed, picture frame

grass

Douglas fir, redwoods, sequoia, ponderosa, redcedar

Fraser fir, Abies fraseri

bracteata, mariesii, amabilis, procera, magnifica, concolor, jaliscana, guatemalensis, hickelii, flinckii, vejarii, durangensis, religiosa, hidalgensis, grandis, lowiana, alba, pinsapo, cephalonica, nebrodensis, nordmanniana, numidica, borisii-regis, cilicica, lasiocarpa, ernestii, firma, sibirica, fanjingshanensis ...

ziyuanensis, kawakamii, chensiensis, squamata, beshanzuensis, pindrow, recurvata, fargesii, koreana, nephrolepis, holophylla, sachalinensis, fabri, veitchii, delavayi, densa, spectabilis, nukiangensis, ferreana, forrestii, georgei, homolepis, yuanbaoshanensis

silver, Sicilian, Bulgarian, Greek, Caucasian, Kazdağı, Turkish, Spanish, Algerian, Syrian, subalpine, corkbark, Rocky Mountains subalpine, Siberian, Sakhalin, Korean, Khinghan, Veitch's, Shikoku, grand, white, Durango, Coahuila, Jalisco, Guatemalan, Taiwan, Nikko

Min, Momi, Baishanzu, Manchurian, Shensi, Salween, Pindrow, Ziyuan, Pacific, Maries', Delavay's, Faber's, Forrest's, Bhutan, East Himalayan, Farges', Fanjingshan, Yuanbaoshan, Oaxaca, bristlecone