Wildlife

Western white pine

Pinus monticola
Habitat
Fort Clatsop
Conservation
Vulnerable

Lewis may not have seen an entire tree; Clark noted when he observed it and apparently provided cones for Lewis’s notes.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Western white pine

Aug 3 1805
Lewis: August 3, 1805
...e valley, and are but skantily supplyed with timber; small pine appears to be the prevalent growth. there is no timber in the valley except a small quantity of th...
Oct 17 1805
Clark: October 17, 1805
...ing to eate, first he brought in a piece of a Drift log of pine and with a wedge of the elks horn, and a malet of Stone curioesly Carved he Split the log into Sma...
Jan 29 1806
Lewis: January 29, 1806
... is the growth of high dry situations, and invariably in a piney country or on it's borders. it is generally found in the open piney woodland as on the Western si...
Jan 30 1806
Clark: January 30, 1806
...agreeably disapointed in our fuel which is altogether green pine. we had Supposed that it burned badly, but we have found by Spliting it burns very well. The dres...
Feb 25 1806
Lewis: February 25, 1806
..., as we have not seen them in any part of the country where pine forms the majority of the timber, or in which the oak dose not appear. this animal is much larger...
Mar 4 1806
Clark: March 4, 1806
...vus and the Small white brested corvus are the nativs of a piney country invariably, being found as well on the Rocky Mountains as on this coast-. The lark is fo...
Mar 4 1806
Lewis: March 4, 1806
... do have been previously discribed and are the natives of a piney country invariably, being found as well on the rocky mountains as on this coast.the lark is foun...
Apr 6 1806
Lewis: April 6, 1806
... and rises to the hight of seven hundred feet; it has some pine or reather fir timber on it's nothern side, the southern is a precipice of it's whole hight. it ri...
May 8 1806
Lewis: May 8, 1806
...they were compelled to collect the moss which grows on the pine which they boiled and eat; near this camp I observed many pine trees which appear to have been cut...
Jun 27 1806
Lewis: June 27, 1806
...tones of 6 or eight feet high and on it's summit erected a pine pole of 15 feet long from hence they informed us that when passing over with their familes some o...
Jun 28 1806
Clark: June 28, 1806
...wey region of the mountains and feeds on the leaves of the pine & fir. there is a Species of Small huckleberry common to the hights of the mountains, and a Specie...
Jul 2 1806
Lewis: July 2, 1806
... leafed willow are natives of this valley. the long leafed pine forms the principal timber of the neighbourhood, and grows as well in the river bottoms as on the...
Jul 3 1806
Clark: July 3, 1806
...erably leavel and partially timberd with long leaf & pitch pine, Some cotton wood, Birch, and Sweet willow on the borders of the Streams. I observed 2 Species of ...
Jul 4 1806
Lewis: July 4, 1806
...f no great extent; the hills were covered with long leafed pine and fir. I now continued my rout up the N. side of the Cokahlahishkit river through a timbered co...
Jul 4 1806
Clark: July 4, 1806
...ly from 8 to 10 mes. wide. contains a good portion of Pitch pine. we passed three large deep rapid Creeks this after noon

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