Silviculture is being used to help restore the population of the lost red spruce. Bascom Lodge was built between 1932-1938 using native materials of Greylock schist and red spruce. It protects of red spruce and eastern hemlock upland forest. Noted for preferring hemlock, it is also associated with high elevation red spruce forests. Before the fires, Mount Monadnock was totally covered in a red spruce forest. The geographic range of the black spruce is much larger than the red spruce. The Gaudineer Scenic Area, encompassing around Gaudineer Knob, includes about of virgin red spruce forest. The summit is covered with red oak, red spruce, and balsam fir trees. Prior to the late 1800s, of red spruce were in West Virginia. Along with red spruce, it has also been used to make spruce gum and beer. Work soon commenced on logging the red spruce trees, which grew in the higher elevations. Red spruce is the provincial tree of Nova Scotia. It is dominated by red spruce and Fraser fir, and coats the elevations above . Like most trees, red spruce is subject to insect parasitism. Red spruce can be easily damaged by windthrow and acid rain.