BIENNIAL REPORT--1958 - 1959 



ALASKA FOREST RESEARCH CENTER 



U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service 

 Juneau, Alaska 



A. E. Helmers, Acting Forester in Charge 



STATION PAPER NO. 

 JUNE I960 



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COVER PHOTOGRAPH 



Paper birch stands with occasional 

 associated white spruce, intermingled 

 with black spruce muskegs and patches 

 of pure white spruce. Birch Lake in 

 right center, Tanana River in back- 

 ground, about 50 miles southeast of 

 Fairbanks, Alaska, 



