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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



their intimate association create a ecinlin.UDUs forest in 

 which the nnits or indixidual trees are almost lost sight 

 of in the surpassing grandeur of the whule. It is a 

 case of nature sur]5assing herself in the production oi 

 extremes in sizes, qualit}' and c|uainity. The great colon- 

 nades of redwood trees have been likened to some won- 

 cerful cathedral, but, unlike any works of man, they ex- 

 tend over hundreds of s(|uare miles and jirodiice a 

 variety of conditions and vistas absolutely unatlainalile in 

 the highest art of the architect. 



W IXUHLOW X HICDW U( JDS 



This is in the Monterey National Forest in California. Here the wiiuU 

 from tlie ocean are so strong and persistent that tliey have the nmisiial 

 effect t]])0n the growth of the tree so vividly shown in tlie ]ihologra|jh 



The influence of environment is demonstrated by com- 

 paring the redwoods at the northern and southern limits 

 of their range. While the character of the redwood 

 forests changes materially on different sites in the several 

 belts and groups from Humboldt County southward, a 

 radical change is found on the seaward side of the Santa 

 Lucia Mountains below Monterey. Mere at its southern 

 limit the redwood loses its dominant character, and in 

 exposed situations becomes a gnarled, stunte<l and wind- 

 flattened tree. In the protected canyons it grows to more 

 nearly normal size, but decreases in height up the slopes 

 until near the ridge summits it takes on the shape of a 

 limber pine at timber line on some high mountain. The 

 effect produced when viewed from a high point is pe- 

 culiar, the canyon forests being practically Hat to the 



level of the (jrotccting ridge with the trees in the center 

 tall and straight, 1>ut decreasing in size up both sk>pes 

 as if they all h:i(l been clipiied oft to one height like 

 a hedge. 



The famous old city of Alonterey is the starting jwinr 

 for several trips which take in rare or unusual trees. 

 One of these is to the stunted, wind-flattened redwoods 

 just mentioned, which in\olves a trip l.)y carriage or 

 horseback to the settlements some distance ilown the 

 coast, ."^uch an excursion also shows much that is best 

 in the wa\' of sea-coast scenery. The shorter drives 

 usuallv taken by the tourist from .Monterey traverse the 

 range of tw(.i trees which exist only on this particular part 

 of the California coast. In fact, the main attraction of 

 one of the drives, \}ing in interest with the old Missions, 

 is the famous Monterey cypress. Un the peninsula be- 

 tween Monterev Uav and Carmel lia}- are the indi\idual 

 trees which ha\'e Ijeen so widely pictured and are so well 

 known to tourists. They are picturesque specimens on 



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STUMP OF SKOfOlA 



This stump is 20 feet in diameter. It was cut unusually higli, not because 

 it was convenient to do so but because the old tire scars made it 

 worthless as lumber up to the point where the cutting was made. 

 This stands in the Sequoia National Forest, Tulare County, Cal. 



an exposed r;0cky sea cliff, where the artistic setting, wide, 

 flat-topped crown, and grotesquely bent and gnarled 

 trunk and branches, create an unusual spectacle. The 

 natural belt of Monterey cypress is only a few hundred 

 feet wide along the coast, with a few trees scattered in- 

 land on the ridge of the peninsula. Although extensively 

 planted as wind breaks, there is no other natural group 

 of these trees anywhere in existence. 



Des])ite this fact there is a widespread belief that 

 these trees are descendants of the famous "cedars of 

 Lebanon," and despite the efforts to remove it the im- 



