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III. The majestic beauty of the Big Tree is 
unique and world-renowned. 
IV. It now exists only in ten isolated groves on 
the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and 
nowhere else in the world. 
V. The Mariposa Grove is to-day the only one of 
consequence which is completely protected. 
VI. Most of the scattered groves of Big Trees 
are privately owned, and therefore in danger of de- 
struction. 
VII. Lumbering is rapidly sweeping them off; 
forty mills and logging companies are now at work 
wholly or in part upon Big Tree timber. 
VIII. The southern groves show some reproduc- 
tion, through which there is hope of perpetuating 
these groves. In the northern groves the species 
hardly holds its own. 
IX. The Big Tree and the smaller coast redwood 
represent a surviving prehistoric genus of trees (the 
Sequoias), once widely distributed over the globe. 
Farther to the south and nearer to the ocean, on 
the Coast Range, is a group of reservations destined 
to protect the headwaters of streams which flow down 
into the famous region of Santa Barbara, Los An- 
geles, and San Bernardino. These are famous winter 
resorts, with a delightful climate, and with charms 
quite equal to the Riviera of southern Europe, but 
