Excerpt from Silvical Characteristics of Sitka Spruce Sitka spruce (picea is the largest of the native spruces and a major timber and pulpwood tree of the Pacific Coast. The name Sitka, referring to Sitka, Alaska, and the names coast Spruce, tideland spruce, and yellow spruce (ll)i -sometimes used for this species - are descriptive of its range, which is restricted to a long, narrow strip along the Pacific Ocean from California to Alaska (fig. The range is over 1, 800 miles long, yet so closely correlated with the coastal fog belt that it extends inland only a short distance. Width varies to a maximum of about 130 miles in Alaska, which is the distance from the western shore of the islands to the limit of the type on the sea slope of the coastal mountains. Moving south the range generally narrows but is very irregular, with spruce reaching many miles up coastal streams. Maximum width in Washington and Oregon is 25 to 30 miles. In California, the range of Sitka spruce is restricted to the mouth of streams and low valleys facing the ocean (12. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.