American forestry (1910-1923) (18140902342)

Title: American forestry

Identifier: americanforestry221916amer (find matches)

Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)

Authors: American Forestry Association

Subjects: Forests and forestry

Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association

Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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26 AMERICAN FORESTRY

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SITKA SPRUCE IN THE TONGASS NATIONAL FORI':ST The most important species in Alasl<a is tlie Sitka spruce. Single trees reach a diameter of over seven feet and a height of 200 feet. A single log lirought to one of the local mills was 154 feet long and scaled 18,000 hoard feet. Many parts of the forest run from lifty to seventy-live thousand feet per acre, limited areas carry one hundred thousand feet per acre. feet in diameter. But this comparison indicates an extraordinary development of the Washington forests rather than a small yield in Alaska. The coast belt extends from Dixon's entrance west to Kenai Peninsula, a distance of about 1,000 miles, inter- rupted at several points where the mountains extending to the sea are so rugged and rocky or have such a cover of ice and snow that tree vegetation is prohibited. Just as the Alaskan coast forests have a smaller development than the coast forests further south in the States, so the

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