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