Life Zones and Characteristic vegetation. Arctic or Alpine Zone Low herbs and grasses Arctic Alpine Birds & Flowers Dwarf Birch and Willow Timberline Hudsonian or Subalpine Zone Limber Pine Forest Engelmann Spruce Forest Canadian Or Montane Zone Gray Jay Grouse and summer resident birds Mixed Forests chiefly Lodgepole Pine. Fir and Aspet Wild Flower Reservation. Yellow pine Forest Transition Or Submontane Zone |