FORESTS OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



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ALPINE FIR (ABIES LASIOCARPA).* 



The alpine fir (fig. 13) ranges from Alaska to New Mexico. It 

 is a common tree in the park at elevations above 4,500 feet. It is a 



FIG. 13. A cluster of Alpine firs (Abies lasiocarpa), whose spire-shaped crowns 

 are characteristic, at 5,500 feet altitude, in Cowlitz Park, Mount Rainier 



National Park. 



Photograph by A. II. Barnes. 



tree of the high mountains and with the white bark pine and the 

 mountain hemlock, is found up to the limit of arborescent life. It 



1 This species is known as balsam in Glacier and Yellowstone Parks. 



