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Figure 15. --A dense young stand of 

 Sitka spruce on the Yakutat fore- 

 land. 







Figure 16 . --Fifty-year-old Sitka 

 spruce on the Yakutat foreland. 





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Figure 17. --Dense stand of devils 

 club, currant, and salmonberry 

 under a 120-year-old primary 

 stand of Sitka spruce at Yakutat 



Figure 18. --Sitka spruce understory 

 in a Cottonwood stand on a re- 

 cently glaciated area. 



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