Lutz Spruce Sound Boards
Harvested from the Kleanza watershed in British Columbia Lutz spruce or Roche is a hybridization of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), White spruce (Picea glauca) and sometimes Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii). On the eastern slopes of British Columbia's coast mountain ra/nge hybridization of these species is common. In the Skeena and Nass River drainages hybridization of the three species occurs most often and it appears that all of the spruce stands in this area (the community of Terrace is built on the banks of the Skeena River), 90 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, are not pure. The spruce in this area is known as Lutz or Roche spruce.















