Excerpt from Alaska's Spruce The scientific name of white spruce found in Alaska is Picea glauca Var. Albertiana. This western variety is closely related to the eastern white and red spruce, the Englemann spruce of the Rockies, and the coastal Sitka spruce. The tree is medium in size. In high quality stands, average trees are 30 to 60 centimeters in diameter and 15 to 25 meters in height The largest known white spruce is meters in diameter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.