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Sitka spruce is native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and its southeastern limit near Fort Bragg in northern California ( Griffin & Critchfield 1972 ).
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Foremost are Sitka spruce, the most common, and Alpine and Adirondack spruce, the most sought-after, woods for the making of guitar tops.
For example, some makers have begun producing models with redcedar or mahogany tops, or with spruce variants other than Sitka.
In the conifer classification, grand fir is found more in the northern part of Whidbey Island along with Sitka spruce and shore pine.
Western Hemlock typically dominate oldgrowth rainforests, but contain sections of Douglas-firs, Redcedar, Alder, and even Redwood forests on their southern extent, near the Oregon and California border, while Sitka spruce increases in frequency with latitude.
Steinway parts for both factories come from the same places: Canadian maple is used for the rim, and the soundboards are made from Sitka spruce from Alaska.
Steinway soundboards are made of close-grained, quarter-sawn Sitka spruce from British Columbia and Alaska.
The Forest has numerous hiking trails, including those through the virgin stands of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and Douglas fir in the Cummins Creek and Rock Creek Wilderness areas a few miles south of Yachats.
Among the native Sitka spruce, western hemlock and wildflowers, the garden is a unique experimental outdoor laboratory, featuring a great many exotic species such as South African honeybush, New Zealand and Tasmanian tree ferns, Chinese fig hazel, Australian Grevillia, and Chilean flame and lantern trees.
This protected stand of Sitka spruce and western hemlock is home to the federally listed species of marbled murrelet and northern spotted owl as well as other species such as the Roosevelt elk, black-tailed deer, cougar, black bear, and bald eagle.
Sun scald damage on Sitka spruce
The old trading house at Lauvøy, surrounded by Sitka spruce
Front detail of a CF Martin 000-28EC, showing the solid Sitka spruce soundboard, inlaid herringbone rosette and characteristic " comma-shaped " pick guard.
The pre-War guitars were believed to have internal bracing carved more skillfully than later instruments, producing better resonance, and tops made from Adirondack red spruce rather than Sitka spruce.
* 000-1: Slightly smaller in all dimensions than a dreadnought guitar ( the " standard " acoustic guitar ), solid Sitka spruce top, solid mahogany back, laminated mahogany sides, tortoiseshell binding, rosewood fingerboard.
* D-18: Dreadnought guitar, solid Sitka spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides.
* D-28: Dreadnought guitar, solid Sitka spruce top, solid East Indian rosewood ( Brazilian rosewood before 1969 ) back and sides, ebony fingerboard, black and white binding and ornamentation with 5 / 16 " non-scalloped braces.
* X-Series: Back and sides constructed from compressed wood fibers ( high-pressure laminate or " HPL ") and solid Sitka spruce or HPL top.
With the exception of the LX1 and LX1E, which both have solid Sitka spruce tops, Little Martin series guitars are constructed with HPL top, back, and sides.
The SWB's top is made with book matched solid Sitka spruce reclaimed from pulp logs, the back, sides and neck are solid certified cherry, and the fingerboard is certified katalox.
It has a Sitka spruce top with Solid East Indian Rosewood back and sides and a black Ebony fingerboard.
The climax forests consist of Sitka spruce and western hemlock.
)/ salmonberry ( Rubus spectabilis ), Sitka spruce ( Picea sitchensis )/ salal ( Gaultheria shallon ), and cedar ( Thuja spp.
In northwestern Oregon, winter foods include needles and tender bark of Sitka spruce, Douglas-fir, and western hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla ); leaves and green twigs of salal ; buds, twigs, and bark of willows ; and green herbs.
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The wood varies by instrument, but Sitka Spruce ( Picea sitchensis ) is the most common wood used for the soundboard.
The rooting habit of coast Douglas-fir is not particularly deep, with the roots tending to be shallower than those of same-aged Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, or California Incense-cedar, though deeper than Sitka Spruce.
Port Alexander is the only city on a small sliver of land at the southeastern corner of Baranof Island that is not part of the City and Borough of Sitka.
It is primarily second and third growth and contains many huge Douglas-fir, Western Red cedar, Western Hemlock, and Sitka Spruce trees.
Sitka complies, and Koda is reunited briefly with the spirit of his mother, before she and Sitka return to the Spirits.
The story follows the film where Kenai transformed into a bear by his brother Sitka and is being hunted by his brother Denahi.
Michener's picture is credited to Michael A. Lewis of the Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska.
In the high mountains it is replaced by the smaller Sitka alder ( Alnus viridis subsp.
After illnesses, storms, and other troubles had affected the expedition, de Heceta returned to Nueva Galicia, while Quadra kept on a northward course, ultimately reaching 59 ° North in what today is Sitka, Alaska.
Douglas fir wanes as a dominant species, and the forest is primarily made up of western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and western hemlock.
* St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka, Alaska is completed.
Its main campus is located in Juneau and it has extended campuses in Sitka and Ketchikan.
An exception to this is the subspecies, the Sitka black-tailed deer ( O. h. sitkensis ).
The Cape Lookout Trail is a popular hiking trail, extending 2. 5 miles through Sitka spruce forest to the tip of the promontory.
Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large coniferous evergreen tree growing up to 80 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 5 m, exceptionally to 6 – 7 m diameter.
The Sitka spruce is one of only five species documented to reach 300 feet in height.
Sitka spruce is a long-lived tree, with individuals over 700 years old known.
Sitka and native
* Crow, John, Anastasia Yarzuktina, and Oksana Kolomiets " American traders and the native people of Chukotka in the early 20th Century " 2010 International Conference on Russian America, Sitka, AK August 18 – 22.
North American native species in this subgenus include the American mountain-ash Sorbus americana and Showy mountain-ash Sorbus decora in the east and Sitka mountain-ash Sorbus sitchensis in the west.
In 1837 a very deadly epidemic of smallpox that came from this settlement via Sitka wiped out most native people in the Sonoma and Napa County regions.
Kupreyanov and his wife, Yuliya Ivanovna, began a school for native girls in Sitka.
Today Sitka spruce, native to the northwest coast of North America, tends to be favored, although other species of spruce have also been used.
On May 25, 1799 Baranov and 100 employees of the Russian American Company ( accompanied by their native wives ) sailed into Sitka Sound aboard the cutter Olga and sloop-of-war Konstantin of the Imperial Russian Navy ; accompanying the Russian settlers was a fleet of some 550 baidarkas, carrying 600 – 1, 000 Aleut escorts.
* Tlingit Geographical Place Names for the Sheet ’ Ka Kwaan — Sitka Tribe of Alaska — an interactive map of Sitka Area native place names.
The site, located near the mouth of the Indian River, served in 1804 as the location of an armed conflict between the native Tlingit people and Russian fur hunters ( accompanied by their Aleut allies ), known today as the Battle of Sitka.
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