. [Collected reprints, 1911-1931. Ornithology; Mammals. 1922] Swarth: Birds and Mammals of the Stikine Region 139 huckleberry in the drier woods. The only open ground was found in some long, narrow lanes extending down from below the glacier, where apparently strips of forest had been swept away by avalanches of ice or rocks. The moraine consists of huge, angular rocks massed in ridges and is largely hidden by forest growth, which extends close to the glacier. Large spruce and hemlock trees grow between the rocks, and devil's- club, salmonberry, and other shrubbery cover the surface of the bou
. [Collected reprints, 1911-1931. Ornithology; Mammals. 1922] Swarth: Birds and Mammals of the Stikine Region 139 huckleberry in the drier woods. The only open ground was found in some long, narrow lanes extending down from below the glacier, where apparently strips of forest had been swept away by avalanches of ice or rocks. The moraine consists of huge, angular rocks massed in ridges and is largely hidden by forest growth, which extends close to the glacier. Large spruce and hemlock trees grow between the rocks, and devil's- club, salmonberry, and other shrubbery cover the surface of the boulders. Most of the depressions were flooded by beaver ponds, with surrounding borders of Fig. L. Mouth of Stikine River at low tide. The ocean tides ascend many miles up stream. At low water extensive sand bars are exposed at the river's mouth; the channel is then broken up into numerous small, shallow passages, impassable to even a very small boat. Photograph taken at Sergief Island, Alaska, September 5, 1919. GREAT GLACIER The fanlike front of the Great Glacier, four or five miles across, issues from the mountains on the west side of the- Stikine about fifteen miles above the British Columbia-Alaska boundary line. Our camp site was below the southern end of the Glacier. The river bank at that point is rather high and abrupt, cut through a deep layer of gravel that extends back to the terminal moraine of the glacier. This dry, well drained strip is not of a nature to support such forest growths as we found below Flood Glacier, and the woods were fairly open. There are extensive areas grown with scattered thickets of alder and a few scattered spruce and cottonwoods, the open ground between being. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Swarth, Harry Schelwald, 1878-. s. l. , s. n.
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