THE DEL MONTE FOREST 



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peninsula is due quite largely to the forest, so to pre- 

 serve this great asset the forest must be very carefully 

 managed. The Company will probably employ a techni- 

 cally trained forester in the near future to increase the 

 intensiveness of management. When this is done the 

 Del Monte Forest will be one of the most intensively 

 managed forests in this country, and with its many 

 activities will be especially interesting to foresters, com- 

 paring not unfavorably to intensively managed European 

 forests. 



In addition to the timber resources of the forest, which 

 are yielding a good revenue at the rate of about $2.50 



A VISTA TO THE SEA 



This is a fire lane, cut through the forest of Monterey Pine to the ocean. 

 Much care is given to fire protection through proper methods of crop pro- 

 duction, close utilization, and prompt disposal of brush. 



per cord stumpage, the toll from the famous Seventeen 

 Mile Drive, which has now been extended to over forty 

 miles of fine roads, the return from the sale of many 

 thousand tons of sand annually from the sand dunes, 

 from the grazing, and from the rental of drill grounds 

 to the United States Army brings in a considerable in- 

 come per acre. 



The region is one of great natural beauty which just- 

 ly attracts thousands of tourists and regular visitors an- 

 nually; it easily is the one of the greatest natural attrac- 

 tions of any portion of the coast of the United States. In 

 addition to the historic places, the mild climate, the 



THE APPROACH OF THE SAND ENEMY 



Here are seen huge sand dunes, slowly but surely encroaching upon the 



forest at Asilomar. 



splendid road system, the beautiful forest already men- 

 tioned, the rocky coast broken here and there by fine 

 sand beaches, the fascinating sand dunes with their char- 

 acteristic flora, the exceedingly fine marine gardens visit- 

 ed in glass bottom boats on both the Monterey 

 Bay and Carmel Bay sides of the peninsula, bird 

 rocks, the seal rocks, the abalone fisheries, etc., are 

 most interesting. The Del Monte Hotel, with its fine 

 grounds and golf links, is the mecca of honeymooners of 

 the Pacific coast. At Pebble Beach on the shores of 

 Carmel Bay, is growing up a colony of well known peo- 



A PECULIAR EXAMPLE OF PROTECTION 

 This big Monterey Pine is holding the sand dune on the leeward side, and 

 at the same time basking and thriving in the protection thus afforded 

 by its prisoner. 



