4 FOKESTS OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



EFFECTS OF FIRE. 



Notwithstanding the shortness of the summer season at high alti- 

 tudes, the subalpine forests in some parts of the park have suffered 



FIG. 1. Whitened spectral monuments of a former forest which was swept by 

 a severe forest fire in 1885. Taken along the road to Gamp of the Clouds at 

 an altitude of 5,500 feet. 



Photograph by A. H. Barnes. 



severely from fire (fig. 1). The bare white trunks of fire-killed 

 amabilis and alpine firs bear witness to numerous fires which oc- 



