Wildlife
Engelmann’s spruce
Picea engelmannii
Habitat
Lolo Trail
Conservation
Secure
This tree was among those listed by Clark as they struggled over Lolo Pass, the only spruce of the northern Rockies.
Journal References
13 journal entries mention Engelmann’s spruce
May
23
1805
Clark: May 23, 1805
...d Current more rapid than
yesterday, in maney places I saw Spruces on the hills Sides Stard. this
evening.
May
23
1805
Lewis: May 23, 1805
...more rappid, & the country much the same as yesterday. some spruce
pine of small size appears among the pitch pine, and reather more rock
than usual on the face of ...
May
24
1805
Clark: May 24, 1805
...untrey on the Stard. Side found it broken & Dry
Some pine, Spruce & Dwarf Cedar on the hill sides, I Sent one man 10
mile out he reports a Similarity of Countrey ba...
May
24
1805
Lewis: May 24, 1805
... hills; the tops of the hills
covered with scattering pine spruce and dwarf cedar; the soil poor and
sterile, sandy near the tops of the hills, the whole producing ...
May
27
1805
Lewis: May 27, 1805
...e,
which is imbeded in the Clay and sand. some little pine spruce and dwarf
cedar on the hills. some coal or carbonated wood still makes it's
appearance in these b...
Jul
17
1805
Clark: July 17, 1805
...reat deel of Scattering pine
on the mountains, Some aspin, Spruce & fur trees took a meridian altd.
which gave for Lattitude 46° 42' 14" 7/10 N we proceeded on ver...
Sep
9
1805
Lewis: September 9, 1805
...ogether pine principally of the longleafed kind, with
some spruce and a kind of furr resembleing the scotch furr. near the
wartercourses we find a small proportion ...
Sep
12
1805
Clark: September 12, 1805
...passing up each fork. The Timber is Short &
long leaf Pine Spruce Pine & fur. The road through this hilley
Countrey is verry bad passing over hills & thro Steep hol...
Nov
2
1805
Clark: November 2, 1805
...bered, as also the high mountains on each Side, with Pine,
Spruce pine, Cotton wood, a Species of ash, and alder. at 17 miles passed
a rock near the middle of the r...
Nov
4
1805
Clark: November 4, 1805
...the timber on the
edge of the Prarie is white oke, back is Spruce pine & other Species
of Pine mixed Some under groth of a wild crab & a Specis of wood I'm
not acq...
Nov
13
1805
Clark: November 13, 1805
...ing, as we are in a Cove & the
Mountains verry high & Pine Spruce verry high & thick Cannot
deturmine the procise course of the winds. I walked to the top of the
f...
Dec
8
1805
Clark: December 8, 1805
... lands good roleing much falling
timber, lofty Pine of the Spruce kind, & Some fur, passed over a high
hill & to a Creek which we kept down 11/2 miles and left it t...
Feb
5
1806
Clark: February 5, 1806
...the
timber of this neigh-bourhood. it appears to be of the Spruce kind. it
rises to the higth of 160 or 180 feet very Commonly and is from 4 to 6
feet in diameter,...