A FOREST OF STONE 



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Another Specimen Showinr Bark. 



this ancient of ancients is also surrounded by live trees many of them being of the 



same species. 



livin": relative of the Pacific coast in 

 order to calculate its probable height. 

 The living redwood is usually 10 to 15 

 feet in diameter and ranges in height 

 from 200 to 310 feet, and as the two are 

 so very closely related there is no rea- 

 son to suppose that the fossil trunk- 

 was of less height, but by a moderate 

 estimate it may be accredited with a 

 minimum height of 200 feet. 



The most accessible fossil forest is 

 west of the Tower Falls Soldier Station 

 and the Wylie camp on the road from 

 the Grand Canyon to Mammoth Hot 

 Springs, by way of Mount Washburn. 

 It is on the middle slope of a hill that 

 rises about 1,000 feet above the little 

 \-alley and may be reached b}' an easy 

 trail. As the traveler approaches the 

 forest he will obscrv^e a number of 



