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3 no end of strength growing expanding vigor in that latitude soil, under fair conditions. I asked Fernow why the Sitka
Sp. forest did not keep on West He mumbled a lot of stuff about prevailing winds, competition of Alder bushes rank grass,
the Japan Current which simply meant he didn't know. The simple explanation is fire. The line of demarcation between the western
treeless forest regions to the eastward shows plainly that fire is the controlling agent. Most of the soil is volcanic supports
a dense lush growth of fire-feeding grass brush. I was told at Unalaska that notwithstanding the wet weather fire ran in the
grass any time of year after a single day of dry sunshine that constant care fighting were required to save the fir? trees
planted at Unalaska at Prince Williams Sound at the head of a cold icy fiard I found a pure forest of Patton Hemlock at sea-level,
trees 2, to over 3 feet diameter, 80 to 100 ft high. Bark pale gray-almost white. Pistillate flowers very dark blue 3/4 inch
long. The grandest oldest mossiest Patton hemlock forest I ever saw. Waving long