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Slide 27: A view of giant heather, moss and lichens of the Lower Afro-Alpine Belt 3500-3700 meters above sea-level on Mt. Karisimbi. This formation is called the Brush Ridge belt on the vegetation map created by the Rutgers University project team.  The classification is based on work done by George Schaller another great champion of  the mountain gorilla and its habitat. 
Image credit: photo by Robert E. Ford, Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Utah 
 

Created 12 February 1998. Last updated 13 May 1998  by JDH.