Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.

""From the universal distribution of the woods one would be led at first sight to suppose that Alaska was an old country . But, on the contrary, Alaska is a very young country, and its forests are mostly set on solid rock that had but just emerged from beneath the ice-sheet. The existence...

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Published: San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 30, 1879 1879
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Ice Sheet
Alaska
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spelling ftunivpacific:oai:cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org:p16745coll2/1272 2023-05-15T16:40:44+02:00 Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879. 1879-10-30 http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1272 unknown San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 30, 1879 See also: no. 175, v. 1, pp. 201-204; no. 210, pp. 517-519; no. 216 1879 ftunivpacific 2016-07-27T10:19:38Z ""From the universal distribution of the woods one would be led at first sight to suppose that Alaska was an old country . But, on the contrary, Alaska is a very young country, and its forests are mostly set on solid rock that had but just emerged from beneath the ice-sheet. The existence of forests on so bare a surface is possible only in a wet and temperate climate like this . Give to Alaska the climate of California, and these evergreen islands and shores would be treeless, sun beaten rocks."" Other/Unknown Material Ice Sheet Alaska University of the Pacific: Holt-Atherton Special Collections
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description ""From the universal distribution of the woods one would be led at first sight to suppose that Alaska was an old country . But, on the contrary, Alaska is a very young country, and its forests are mostly set on solid rock that had but just emerged from beneath the ice-sheet. The existence of forests on so bare a surface is possible only in a wet and temperate climate like this . Give to Alaska the climate of California, and these evergreen islands and shores would be treeless, sun beaten rocks.""
title Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.
spellingShingle Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.
title_short Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.
title_full Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.
title_fullStr Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.
title_full_unstemmed Alaska Forests. Evergreens-The Yellow Cedar and its Various Uses. The White Spruce-Pines and Cottonwoods-Firs and Hardwoods. Extent and Commercial Value of Alaska Forests-The 'Devil's Club.' (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Fort Wrangel, October 8, 1879.
title_sort alaska forests. evergreens-the yellow cedar and its various uses. the white spruce-pines and cottonwoods-firs and hardwoods. extent and commercial value of alaska forests-the 'devil's club.' (special correspondence of the bulletin.) fort wrangel, october 8, 1879.
publisher San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 30, 1879
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Alaska
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Alaska
op_relation See also: no. 175, v. 1, pp. 201-204; no. 210, pp. 517-519; no. 216
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