THE FORESTS OF OREGON 



extent might be set apart and protected for 

 public use forever, containing at least a few 

 hundreds of each of these noble pines, spruces, 

 and firs. Happy will be the men who, having 

 the power and the love and benevolent forecast 

 to do this, will do it. They will not be forgot 

 ten. The trees and their lovers will sing their 

 praises, and generations yet unborn will rise 

 up and call them blessed. 



Dotting the prairies and fringing the edges 

 of the great evergreen forests we find a con 

 siderable number of hardwood trees, such as 

 the oak, maple, ash, alder, laurel, madrone, 

 flowering dogwood, wild cherry, and wild 

 apple. The white oak (Quercus Garryana) is 

 the most important of the Oregon oaks as a 

 timber tree, but not nearly so beautiful as 

 Kellogg s oak (Q. Kelloggii). The former is 

 found mostly along the Columbia River, par 

 ticularly about the Dalles, and a consider 

 able quantity of useful lumber is made from 

 it and sold, sometimes for eastern white oak, 

 to wagon-makers. Kellogg s oak is a magnifi 

 cent tree and does much for the picturesque 

 beauty of the Umpqua and Rogue River Val 

 leys where it abounds. It is also found in aK 

 the Yosemite valleys of the Sierra, and its 

 acorns form an important part of the food 

 of the Digger Indians. In the Siskiyou Moun- 



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