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River, Fresno Co., 5,000 acres, 12,000 trees; almost entirely lumbered. 10. 

 BOULDER CREEK FOREST, Kings River, Fresno Co., 3,200 acres, 6,450 trees ; more 

 or less lumbered. 11. GENERAL GRANT FOREST, near Millwood, Fresno Co., 

 about 2,500 acres, 250 trees. 12. REDWOOD CANON FOREST, Redwood and 

 Eshom creeks, Tulare Co., 3,000 acres, 15,000 trees. 13. NORTH KAWEAH FOR- 

 EST, North Fork Kaweah River, 500 acres, 800 trees. 14. SWANEE RIVER 

 GROVE, on Swanee River branch of Marble Fork Kaweah River, 20 

 acres, 129 trees. 15. GIANT FOREST, Marble Fork Kaweah River, 8,000 

 acres, 20,000 trees, about 5,000 large ones. 16. REDWOOD MEADOW GROVE, 

 Middle Fork Kaweah River, 50 acres, 200 trees. 17. HARMON MEADOW GROVE, 

 Middle Fork Kaweah River, 10 acres, 80 trees. 18. ATWELL FOREST, both 

 sides of East Fork Kaweah River, 3 miles west of Mineral King, 1,500 acres, 

 3,000 trees; in large part lumbered. 19. LAKE CANON GROVE, East Fork 

 Kaweah River, 20 acres, 80 trees. 20. MULE GULCH GROVE, East Fork Kaweah 

 River, 25 acres, 70 trees. 21. HOMER'S PEAK FOREST, East Fork Kaweah 

 River, 5,500 acres, 1,500 trees. 22. SOUTH KAWEAH FOREST, South Fork 

 Kaweah River, 160 acres, 300 trees. 23. DILLON FOREST, North Fork Tule 

 River, 3,600 acres, 3,500 trees; large part lumbered. 24. TULE RIVER FOREST, 

 Middle Fork Tule River, 15,000 acres, 5,000 trees; large part lumbered. 

 25. PIXLEY GROVE, Middle Fork Tule River, 850 acres, 500 trees. 26. FLEITZ 

 FOREST, Middle Fork Tule River, 4,000 acres, 1,500 trees. 27. PUTNAM MILL 

 FOREST, Middle Fork Tule River, 4,000 acres, 900 trees. 28. KESSING GROVES, 

 South Fork Tule River, 2,800 acres, 700 trees. 29. INDIAN RESERVATION GROVE, 

 South Fork Tule River, 1,500 acres, 350 trees. 30. DEER CREEK GROVE, South 

 Fork Deer Creek, 300 acres, 100 trees. 31. FREEMAN VALLEY FOREST, Kern 

 River Basin, 1,000 acres, 400 trees. 32. KERN RIVER GROVES, Kern River Basin, 

 700 acres, 200 trees. 



Big Tree prefers slopes, ridges or depressions where there is sufficient moist- 

 ure but it may grow in bare granite as in Giant Forest. Commonly associated 

 with White Fir, Incense Cedar, Yellow Pine and Sugar Pine. Reproduction 

 fair in southern groves, especially on burned areas, mostly at a standstill in 

 northern groves. Young trees of pyramidal outline with branches nearly or 

 quite to ground; middle-aged trees clear of branches for 50 to 175 feet and 

 with rounded summit to the crown; aged trees with broken crown, dead tip 

 to axis, and more or less shattered side branches. Extreme age, 1,100 to 

 2,400 years. Wood similar to that of Redwood but more brittle, pink when 

 freshly sawn. 



Eefs. SEQUOIA GIGANTEA Decaisne, Bull. Soe. Bot. Fr. vol. 1, p. 70 (1854) ; Shinn, Gard. & 

 For., vol. 2, p. 614 (1889); Walker, Zoe, vol. 1, p. 198 (1890); Jepson in Elwes & Henry, 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 3, p. 704 (1908). Wellingtonia gigantea Lindley, 

 Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 823. Sequoia wellingtonia Seeman, Bonplandia, vol. 3, p. 27 (1855) ; 

 Sargent, Silva N. Am. vol. 10, p. 145, t. 536 (1896). Mammoth Trees, Williamson, Pac. R. 

 Rep. vol. 5, p. 257, pi. 13 (1856). 



2. S. sempervirens Endl. REDWOOD. (Figs. 12 and 13.) Tall tree 100 to 

 340 feet in height, with narrow crown, the branches horizontal or sweeping 

 downward, especially the lower ones ; bark cinnamon-red and fibrous, 3 inches 

 to 2 feet thick; foliage reddish brown; leaves linear, spreading right and 

 left so as to form flat sprays, !/4 to 1V4 (mostly % to %) inches long and 1 to 

 114 lines wide, or in the top of adult trees with short linear or awl-shaped 

 leaves 1 to 5 lines long and strikingly similar to those of the preceding; 



