While Sitka spruce can withstand the ravages inflicted by deer, other species are not so hardy. |
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Amid that sea of sand, islands of forest appear, dense with Sitka spruce and salal and evergreen huckleberry. |
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To give them relief from their anxiety, Sitka paced to the door, stopping to tell the innkeeper he was going for a walk. |
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The bulbous bow does bounce in small chop, but the clever design makes the Sitka feel as stable as a boat two inches wider. |
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The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty. |
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Several native species have begun to colonize the now stabilized dune area including Sitka spruce, evergreen huckleberry, pearly everlasting, yarrow, and kinnikinnic. |
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In ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Sitka spruce, dimpling sometimes occurs as numerous small, conical indentations of the plane of the growth ring. |
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The soundboard itself is constructed from quartersawn Sitka spruce, which the company says allows for better sound and amplification. |
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The wood species used were Japanese cypress, Japanese cedar, Sitka spruce, Japanese beech, and hackberry. |
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The forests are dominated by western redcedar, Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and Pacific silver fir. |
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A GOOD crop of Sitka spruce cones in Kielder Forest has seen the arrival of bumper numbers of crossbills. |
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A kingfisher streaks through the Sitka sedge and silverweed cinquefoil toward the ocean. |
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On a slope above the Sitka National Historical Park visitor center, Raven, the creator, giver of light and fire, sits high atop a red cedar totem pole. |
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Again, a higher correlation coefficient was obtained from the red pine finger-jointed wood specimens compared to Sitka spruce finger-jointed wood specimens. |
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The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce. |
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As part of the project sitka spruce, a variety of conifer, and rhododendron bushes will be removed from bogland areas. |
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