FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 393 



fine-grained, dense, hard, and rather heavy. Of no commercial use on account of 

 the mostly small size of its stems. Of little importance to the forester except 

 for the thin, scattered brush cover its shrubby stools form. 



Pig. 185. — Acer glabrum. 



Longevity. — Not fully determined, one tree 3| inches in diameter showed 

 an age of 15 years. 



RANCH. 



From southeast Alaska on the coast south to British Columbia (Vancouver Island 

 east to Kanunaskis), and eastward and southward over the mountains of the w.*st to 



