BROADLEAF TREES OF THE PACIFIC 

 SLOPE 



WHILE the Pacific Slope is the home of many of the 

 largest coniferous trees in the United States, and, for that 

 matter, in the world, some of which rank among the high- 

 est in importance in the lumber trade, the region is 

 favored with but few broadleaf species that can be favor- 

 ably compared with those east of the Rocky Mountains. In 

 fact, none are quite equal to the eastern relatives. Some 

 of them, however, are important' to that region because 

 they are indigenous to it, and in some localities fairly 

 abundant, and furnish a fair grade of lumber at a less 

 price than the eastern hardwoods can be delivered for. A 

 brief account of the best of them is here given, taken, in 

 part, from Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope, by George 

 B. Sudworth, dendrologist of the Forest Service of the 

 United States, combined with the author's personal ob- 

 servations when studying the timber trees of that region. 



Poplars. Under this head may be classed the Cotton- 

 woods and the Aspens. These are substantially the same 

 in general character as the Eastern species and the uses 

 they can be put to are practically the same. The Cotton- 

 woods are found along the low grounds of the valleys and 

 in the moist sandy soils. The Aspens seek the higher and 

 drier slopes and elevations. Little use is now made of 

 either, but as pulp wood becomes exhausted in the East and 

 other species of timber trees grow less abundant in the 

 extreme West, these woods may be profitable to plant ; but 

 the ample supply of other and better ones will not justify 

 that effort at the present time. 



The Oaks. There are fourteen species of Oaks on the 

 Pacific Slope. All of them can be found in California and 



