Seedling bigtree.s two years old and two or tliree inches high. They are growing in 

 moist soil where the surface has been cleared by fire. Sequoia National Forest 



The bigtree lives more or less closely associated with the stately sugar 

 pine and western yellow pine, the white fir and incense cedar, and at lower 

 levels the California black oak, sugar pine and white fir are its more frequent 

 neighbors. Pure stands of bigtrees occur in but few instances, the most 

 notable of such stands being the Redwood Mountain and Giant forests, in 

 which the solemn grandeur of this tree is most impressive. 



None of the government's bigtrees are being cut, but privately owned 

 holdings have been lumbered as far back as forty or fifty years ago, and the 

 work is still going on. The lumbering of this timber has from the first been 

 confined mainly to the southern groups. Recent cuttings are in the King's 

 River (Converse Basin) and Kaweah River forests, while old work took place 

 notably in the Redwood Mountain, Merced, and Tule River regions. The 





Seedling bigtrees elovcui or t.volve years old and three and one-half feet high. There 

 Is abundant reproduction whore old trees have been felled by Are and the surface soil 

 bared. Sequoia National Forest 



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