April, 1919] 



Beginnings of Revegetation 



339 



KATMAI A VERY WINDY COUNTRY. 



Unfortunately the weather records taken by the Govern- 

 ment do not include measurements of wind velocity, so that 

 there are no data for giving exact statements concerning the 

 winds. The best that one can do therefore is to report some 



Photograph by Robert F. Griggs 



A SNOWDRIFT COVERED BY TWO FEET OF WIND-BLOWN ASH, NEAR 



KATMAI VILLAGE, AT SEA-LEVEL. JULY 15. 



Thus protected from the sun, melting of the snow is so retarded that in many 



places formerly uncovered early in the season the snow now fails to 



melt away and is accumulating year by \'ear. 



