Contributions in geographical exploration . deeda bleak and desolate prospect. Outside the forest the countryhad the appearance of a desert, whose gray-brown slopes wererelieved only here and there by spots of green where some alderor willow stuck through the ashy blanket (see page 4), or onsome steep slope where the ash had been washed off. Lupines,fireweeds, and other strong-stemmed perennials had, to besure, come up through the ash here and there, but they werenot abundant enough to have much effect on the the forest the prospect was less desolate because thespruces stood u
Contributions in geographical exploration . deeda bleak and desolate prospect. Outside the forest the countryhad the appearance of a desert, whose gray-brown slopes wererelieved only here and there by spots of green where some alderor willow stuck through the ashy blanket (see page 4), or onsome steep slope where the ash had been washed off. Lupines,fireweeds, and other strong-stemmed perennials had, to besure, come up through the ash here and there, but they werenot abundant enough to have much effect on the the forest the prospect was less desolate because thespruces stood up out of the ash in something like their originalcondition, but the undergrowth beneath them was gone and ^ Rigg, G. B. The EiTects of the Katmai Eruption on Marine 40 : 50&-513. 1914. 2 Griggs, Robert F. The Effect of the Eruption of Katmai on Land Am. Geogr. Soc. 47: ; Figs. 1-10. 1915. 3 , The Eruption of Katmai. Nature 101: 497. 22 Aug., 1918. The Ohio Journal of Science [Vol. XIX, No. 1,. Nov., 1918] Recovery of Vegetation at Kodiakcontributionsing00ohiouoft
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