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.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

095

Original Date

10-30-1879

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""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.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 30, 1879

Page/Column

p. 4, cols. 1-2

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 175, v. 1, pp. 201-204; no. 210, pp. 517-519; no. 216

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "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). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 143.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/143