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to cattle and sheep men whose herds browsed beneath the giants even fifty 

 or sixty years ago. 



Passing over the question of whether or not the bigtree should be called 

 Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia iceUingtoniana or Sequoia loashingtoniana, far 



Bigtree 20 feet In diameter damaged by fire, Redwood Mountain Forest, Tulare County. 

 California. Nearly every large sequoia in California is scarred by fire 



more interesting matters are what exactly is the range of this ancient tree, 

 and how is it holding its own in the struggle for existence with other trees 

 of its range. Thirty-one large and small groups are now known. They 

 are more or less widely separated from one another, extending on the north 

 from a point in the Sierras near the southern boundary of Placer County 



