Identifier: foresttreesofpac00unit (find matches)
Title: Forest trees of the Pacific slope
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Forest Service Sudworth, George Bishop, 1862-1927
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ears to grow veryslowly and to be rather long-lived. Trees from 0 to 8 inches in diameter arefrom W) to 175 years old. RANGE. Eastern foothills of Rocky Mountains in Alberta southward to western Texas, andwestward to coast of British Columbia and Washington, to eastern Oregon, Nevada, and 180 POKEST TREES OP THE PACIPIC SLOPE. northern Arizona: probably also in Black Hills (South Dakota) and Oklahoma; gen-erally above Ti.OOO feet elevation, except near coast. Limits of raiiue still imperfectlyknown. British CoLrMin.v and Alberta.—Eastern foothills of liocky Mountains westwardthrough southern British Columbia (here in Columbia Kiver Valley, near Donald, shoresof Kamloops, Kran(.-ois, and other lakes), to Pacilic Ocean; here on heights near Van-couver (British Columbia!, and at Esquinalt and Departure Bay on Vancouver Island,and on small islands in Georgia Strait. A tree juniper found as far north as StikineRiver, on Telegraph Creek, just east of coast range, is probably this species.
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Junipcrun mopulorum. Washington.—Throughout eastern part below 5,000 feet ; reappears west of CascadesIn arid localities, as San Juan, Orcas, Sucia, and Fidalgo islands (Puget Sound),Olympic Mountains, and Everett (Snohomish County). Locally noted, east of Cascades,at Sentinel Bluffs (on Columbia River), Peshastin and Wenache (on Wenache River),near Lake Chelan from Lake level (1,108 feet) to 1,800 feet, at lone (Stevens County),and at Spokane. Oregon.—Eastern part, probably including Wenaha, Blue, and Powder River andsoutheastern mountains. Locally noted in Wallula (iorge of Columbia River, belowJuniper Canyon (Umatilla County), at • 327 feet; southwestern Blue Mountains, be-tween Ontario and Harney, above 3,600 feet; western slope of Steins Mountains, at4,800 to 6,500 feet. The detailed range of this tree in the Ilocliies and eastward will he dealtwith in a later hulletin. FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 181 OCCURRENCE. ♦ On dry exposed mesas, low, dry mountain slopes, an

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