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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Deep Snow Covers Much of These Trees 

 general view showing scanty forest cover at high elevation in vicinity of glen alpine, silver pine, 



LODGEPOLE PINE, BLACK HEMLOCK IN FOREGROUND, EL DORADO NATIONAL FOREST, CALIFORNIA. THE SNOW 

 IS BETWEEN 20 AND 30 FEET DEEP IN PLACES ALONG HERE 



ground is in shade at clear noonday. 

 After advancing 15 or 20 miles, and 

 making an ascent of from 2, COO to 3,000 

 feet, you reach the lower margin of the 

 main pine belt composed of the gigantic 

 Sugar Pine, Yellow Pine, Incense Cedar 

 and Sequoia. Next you come to the 

 magnificent Silver Fir belt, and lastly 

 to the upper pine belt, which sweeps up 

 the rocky acclivities of the summit 

 peaks in a dwarfed, wavering fringe to 

 a height of from 10,C00 to 12,000 feet." 

 Under a wide diversity of altitude, 

 climate and soil, the greatest possible 

 extremes in tree growth are produced 

 To see and appreciate to the full what 

 the Pacific coast has to offer in the way 

 of trees would take years. Even the 

 casual visitor, however, will have ample 



opportunity to see examples of the 

 extreme conditions and of the best 

 w^hich lies in between. One cannot 

 reach San Diego without seeing from the 

 car windows, the stunted pinon pines 

 and diminutive oaks of the foot hills, 

 with a touch of desert flora thrown in. 

 A little more effort will be required to 

 see the optimtim of tree grow^th in the 

 giant Sequoias of the Sierras, or the 

 magnificent redwoods of the northern 

 coast country. Under the influence of 

 heavy rains and the dense fogs which 

 roll in from the Pacific, there has been 

 produced a redwood forest so dense 

 and so dark and composed of such 

 large individual trees, that they seem 

 more like vegetation of long past 

 geological ages. Even larger trees, but 



