Nov., 1918] Recovery of Vegetation at Kodiak 



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been necessary to trust that the land-line, represented by the 

 fence, would be maintained and the fence renewed. Where the 

 line so chosen is the line of a government reservation, it is 

 reasonable to expect that the line will be maintained, but in 

 other cases it is more doubtful. In many cases stones were 

 set on the ground to mark the position of the stations. These 

 are subject to few natural disturbances, except movement 

 by masses of snow, which were not to be expected in the stations 



Photograph by R. F. Griggs 



DETAIL FROM SAME STATION AT END OF FOURTH SEASON. 



Trisetum spicatum and Agrostis hiemalis cover the ground. Festuca (ovina) 



brachyphylla, the vernal fascies, and the other alpine plants mentioned 



in the text, (p. 30) are not conspicuous in the photograph. 



chosen. If not removed by hunters, they should remain in 

 place for many years. But around Kodiak some of them had 

 been picked up by the curious within a few weeks from the 

 time they were set. 



On the mainland, it seemed necessary to use the deserted 

 houses at Katmai village for markers in the absence of almost 

 all other landmarks. But they are falling into ruin so rapidly 

 that there will be little left after ten or a dozen years. For- 

 tunately, however, the stove pipes, shown in. the photographs, 

 are heavy wrought iron affairs which will stay in place for a 

 long period. Two stones were found in the cemetery and from 

 these, a rough system of triangulation was made, tieing together 

 all the stations within sight of them. 



