246 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



Abundant here about Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet, at Hope, at mouth of Resurrection 

 Creek, and up west side of Kenai Peninsula to Kenai Lake, reaching nearly to timber- 

 line (1,600 to 2,000 feet), being common also at Tyonek, and probably down west 



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Fig. 107. — Populus balsamifera candicans. 



<;oast of Cook Inlet at least as far as Iliamna Bay ; reported from shores of Kodiak 

 Island. Western limits in Alaska are limits of tree growth (Bering Sea and- Arctic 

 Ocean), as are also its northern limits (valley of Noatak River, lat v 68°, long. 163°), 

 except that Populus balsamifera is unknown in Turner River Valley, but occurs in 



