SEASON'S GREETINGS 2019
SEASON’S GREETINGS
In mid-winter many of Alaska's mountains, especially those that make up the Alaska Range in the interior, become so covered wit...
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SEASON’S GREETINGS
In mid-winter many of Alaska's mountains, especially those that make up the Alaska Range in the interior, become so covered with snow as to blanket almost all of their rocky underlying structure. It gives them a kind of beauty all their own that separates them from that of the “Rockies” of the more southern latitudes.
These white mountains stand in sharp color contrast and shape to the sharply pointed black spruce that stoically stretch across many of the glacier created valley floors. Black spruce is the most abundant conifer found in the circumpolar boreal forest. They are well adapted to withstanding the severity of long winters in subzero temperatures while living atop a thin layer of nutrient poor soil underlain by permafrost. While not very tall by other spruce standards (they only grow 20-30 feet tall), their seemingly youthful appearance can often belie their age which can be as much as 250 years.
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In mid-winter many of Alaska's mountains, especially those that make up the Alaska Range in the interior, become so covered with snow as to blanket almost all of their rocky underlying structure. It gives them a kind of beauty all their own that separates them from that of the “Rockies” of the more southern latitudes.
These white mountains stand in sharp color contrast and shape to the sharply pointed black spruce that stoically stretch across many of the glacier created valley floors. Black spruce is the most abundant conifer found in the circumpolar boreal forest. They are well adapted to withstanding the severity of long winters in subzero temperatures while living atop a thin layer of nutrient poor soil underlain by permafrost. While not very tall by other spruce standards (they only grow 20-30 feet tall), their seemingly youthful appearance can often belie their age which can be as much as 250 years.
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