Figure 12. --A severely fluted 

 western hemlock. 



Figure 13. --Fluted western 

 hemlock in a 123-year-old 

 stand, site index 140. 



Silvical Leaflets for Alaska Trees 



The Forest Service, Division of Forest Management Research, in 

 Washington, D. C. is supervising the development of silvical leaflets 

 or pamphlets for all commercial tree species. These are being issued 

 mostly as station papers by the various regional forest experiment 

 stations in the States. The tree species of commercial value in Alaska 

 mostly occur to a larger extent in other regions; hence the Alaska 

 Forest Research Center is responsible for only one--Alaska-cedar . A 

 station paper on this species will soon be issued. A short digest of 

 what has been accumulated on Alaska-cedar may be of value. 



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