Picea engelmannii
Englemann spruce
Silviculture
(courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
Wood
Technical Fact Sheet
(courtesy of Hardwoods of North America, Forest
Products Lab, USFS)
Fire
Effects On
(courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, Fire Effects)
From
Virginia Tech w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
Species
Documentation and Data
(The BEST conifer data on the Internet, Gymnosperm
Database, Editor C. J. Earle)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American
Coniferous Forest
(courtesy About Forestry)
Quick Stats
Common Names: Abete di
Sitka, British Columbia sitka-spruce, coast west spruce, coast spruce, eipcea de menzies,
epicea de Menzies, epicea de Sitka, epinette de sitka, great tideland spruce, menzies
spar, Menzies spruce, menziesie, picea de Sitka, picea di Sitka, sequoia silver spruce,
silver spruce, Sitka spar, Sitka spruce, sitka-fichte, sitkafichte, Sitka-gran,
sitka-gran, sitkankuusi, sitka-spar, spruces d'america, tideland spruce, West Coast spruce
Habitat: Engelmann spruce is widely distributed in the western United States and two provinces in Canada
Uses: Engelmann spruce is used principally for lumber and for mine timbers, railroad crossties, and poles.
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