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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 89
fine-grained. One of the two most important timber spruces of northeastern
North America.
LONGEVIaTY.-Long-lived. full-grown trees reach an age of 250 to .350 years.
RANGE.
Newfoundland to Hudson Bay and northwestward to Alaska; southward to northern
New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, and British
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Columbia. Western range, throughout Canadian plains region from Saskatchewan River
Valley northward nearly to the Arctic Ocean; extends southward, in a tongue, along
east slope of Rockies, at 3,000 to 5,000 feet, through northern Montana (also in Cypress
Hills, southwvestern Assiniboia, and Black itills, South Dakota) ; extending northwestward,
at 500 to 3,000 or 4,000 feet elevation, it crosses time nonltrn Itockies into the
plateau of northern British Columbia and Yukon T1'erritorv, ranging throughout Alaska,
at 2,000 to 4,000 feet, and to Bering Set, except on the sea slope of Pacific coast ranges
on the south and the Arctic watershed on the north.