Transcription:
6 of the trees. Large areas are burned the ground is strewn with blackened poles. From this terrace the mountain rises in
steep slopes. The trees are chiefly spruce a species of fir (subalpinea). the firs growing highest even dwarfing at a height
of about 5000 feet into lowly chaparral. This dwarfing seems to be due as much to heavy snow as to altitude, for at the same
elevation on ridges where the snow can never be deep we find both the dwarfed erect forms close together. This fir forms the
most beautiful chaparral I ever saw. The flat thickly foliaged plumes, broad fan-shaped being imbricated over each other by
the pressure of the snow so that the high slopes seem to be neatly handsomely thatched. In this form it is seldom more than
3 or 4 feet high. Yet it bears fertile cones seems thrifty happy as if everything was to its mind. In this dwarfed form it
reaches a height of 5500 feet. At a height of 4000 feet few of the erect trees are more than 40 ft high. one foot in dia at
the ground. The pine spruce of the region lying