The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-30
FOUND new
MOUNTAIN
New York Botanists Made Discovery
in This State.
PEAK FOUND IN kooTENAYs
sity Made Contribution of Its
Herbarium to the New York Expe.
dition.

To an expedition sent to Montana
last summer by the New York Botan-
ica1 Garden to study plant life be-
longs the honor of having discovered
a mountain in the Kootenais that is
unmarked upon the maps and un-
named The expedition conferred a
name upon the peak and incidentally
has recently returned to the east
with glowing account of the result
of the expedition.
The New York Tribune of last Sun
day has an illustrated article upon
the expedition, which is partially de-
scriptive of it's work in the northern
part of this state.
Several new mountains which
have been named after New York
men, and three thousand ~pecimens
of plants, in which were many spe-
cies new to science, were among the
results of the recent expedition sent
to northern Montana by the New
York Botanical Garden" says the
New York paper. The expedition
was in charge of Professor D. T. Mac
Dougal, director of laboratories.
From Missoula the outfit was
transported in a wagon, and flying
camps, sometimes with shelter and
sometimes without, were established
at various points along the foothills
of the Mission and Kootenai noun
tains and eastern shore of Flathead
lake. From these camps short trips
were made into regions to be reached
only by pack animals or on foot.
Professor MacDougal made the as
cent of Sin-yale-a-min peak, $500
feet high, finding it's summit, even
late in June, covered with snow of
depths varying from ten to forty feet
and extending far down the slopes
Many alpine forms of plants were en-
countered. The mountain regions
surrounding Mcdonald lake were
found to have almost continual snow
and rain storms, and results were Sc
lake and it's tributary mountain
streams and environs presented less
difficulties. Here were various craft
by means of which rapid collections
were made. A canvas boat, readily
transported across intervening trips
OF land, made the tributaries easy of
conquest. The results were rich in
rare and novel forms found in and
about the lake, streams, swamps
prairies, forests and mountain slopes
ample statistics were secured es-
tablishing the variation in plant life
caused by temperature and altitude
limnology of inland waters of low
temperature, and the general vertical
distribution of fora. The arctic-alpine
forms of the near high Kootenai
The sight of mountain at least
$500 feet high, not found on the
maps, resulted in consultation with
a party of the United States geolog
ical survey near by, and it was found
to be new 1t was Immediately named
dLISI WillIdl1 u. DOuSS, VI Iue UOdIS
of managers, for promoting the ex
petition AS there were several other
new mountain peaks near by, one
was named by the biologists Mac
Dougal peak, in honor of its discov
erer. At Rost lake, Echo lake ant
Siloway peak the phenomenon of rec
snow was encountered. Professors
MacDougal and M. j. Elrod crossed
the mountain ranges and penetrated
the valleys of Trail lake, Lake PlaciC
and View lake, gathering rich ma
terial. Much of the fields traverseC
had never been visited by botanist!
OF biologists before. In addition t.
the big collections made, the univers
ity of Montana turned over to thu
expedition it's entire herbarium, tt
have its plants named, giving all du
plicates to the New York botanical
Gardens.
"The expedition, comprising prin
cipals, assistants and guides, wen
well armed and equipped, but IA
from finding the Flathead Indians o
this unknown region savage and hos
tile, it found them rich in fertile ant
well cultivated farms, living in goot
houses, possessing large herds of cat
tie, sheep and horses, and dressing
generally in civilized clothes"
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