Grilley 129 Firs and Hemlocks, in Clarke County, Washington Jas. Waggener, Jr. 130 *Where Man is a Pigmy G. M. Weister 130 Hemlock growing on Cedar log Asahel Curtis 131 Tideland Spruce Frank Woodfield 131 Sugar Pine, Douglas Fir and Yellow Pine Jas. Waggener, Jr. 132 Yellow Cedar, with young Silver Fir H. D. Norton 133 *One of the Kings of Treeland Benj. A. Gifford 133 *Firs and Vine Maples Jas. Waggener, Jr. 134 Log Raft Benj. A. Gifford 134 A "Burn" on Mount Hood, overgrown with Squaw Grass Asahel Curtis 135 *A Noble Fir Benj. A. Gifford 136 Western White Pine Unknown 136 A Clatsop Forest H. D. Langille 137 Carpet of Firs J. E. Ford 137 Winter in the Forest, near Mount Hood E. D. Jorgensen 138 Rangers' Pony Trail A. P. Cronk 138 Forest Fire on East Fork of Hood River William M. Ladd 139 Reforestation; three generations of young growth H. D. Langille 139 Klickitat River Canyon William R. King 144 MAPS. The Scenic Northwest 13 Mount Hood 58 Mount Adams 87 Mount St. Helens 107 [Illustration: THE SCENIC NORTHWEST Relief Map to accompany "THE GUARDIANS _of the_ COLUMBIA" by John H. Williams Designed by G. H. Mulldorfer.--Portland.] [Illustration: A Gray Day on the Columbia. Telephotograph of Mount Hood from the river opposite Vancouver Barracks.] [Illustration: Trout Lake and Mount Adams.] THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA I. THE RIVER The Columbia, viewed as one from the sea to the mountains, is like a rugged, broad-topped picturesque old oak, about six hundred miles long, and nearly a thousand miles wide, measured across the spread of its upper branches, the main limbs gnarled and swollen with lakes and lake-like expansions, while innumerable smaller lakes shine like fruit among the smaller branches.--_John Muir._