Sentences with word «sitka»

He assigned different trees to different instruments based on their role in the forest (though in the case of sitka spruce, he assigned it to the cello because it's a common wood used in cello construction) and a key so all the players were on the same page (in this case, a rather foreboding D minor).

In case you didn't follow the link, it's to a series of articles abstracted in PubMed on the phylogenetic relationships between red deer, sitka deer, and wapiti (the American elk).

Solid sitka spruce top, solid rosewood back and sides.

Because 1) new growth uses more carbon and 2) forest stands (like the sequoias and sitka in B.C.) in fact never decompose entirely but are subject to geological sequestration.

The lovely sandy cove beach just off the park is backed by hills vegetated by salal, ferns and sitka spruce.

One paper puts them all about equally related to each other, two papers put wapiti a little closer to sitka than to red.

MARTIN PURYEAR, «Bower,» 1980 (sitka spruce and pine -RCB-.

Some of the trees that have been documented growing on the coast redwood include cascara (Rhamnus purshiana), sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), and California bay laurel (Umbellaria californica)... some reaching astonishing heights of 40 feet.