Rain Barrel at Fort Clatsop
Red alder (Alnus rubra)
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Fearing that our meat would Spoil we Set Six men to jurking it to day, which they are obliged to perform in a house under shelter from the repeated rains.
William Clark
principally rain which has fallen.
Meriwether Lewis
The stem of the black alder of this country before mentioned as arriving
to great size, is simply branching and defuse. the bark is smooth of a light
colour with whte coloured spreading spots or blotches, resembling much that
of the beech; the leaf fructification &c is precisely that of the common
alder of our country.
-Meriwether Lewis-
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