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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



their intimate associatiDii create a continuous forest in 

 which the units or indivitkial trees are almost lost sight 

 of in tile surpassing grandeur of the whole. It is a 

 case of nature surpassing herself in the production of 

 extremes in sizes, quality and quantity. The great colon- 

 nades of redwood trees have been likened to some won- 

 oerful cathedral, but, unlike any works of man, they ex- 

 tend over hundreds of square miles and produce a 

 variety of conditions and vistas absolutely unattainable in 

 the highest art of the architect. 



WIND-HLOWN RKDWOODS 



This is in the Monterey National Korest in California. Here the winds 

 from the ocean are so strong and persistent that they have the unusual 

 effect upon the growth of the tree so vividly shown in the photograph. 



The influence of environment is demonstrated by com- 

 paring the redwoods at tlie northern and southern limits 

 of their range. While the character of the redwood 

 forests changes materially on different sites in the several 

 belts and groups from Humboldt CgUnty southward, a 

 radical change is found on the seaward side of the Santa 

 Lucia Mountains below Monterey. Here at its southern 

 limit the redwood loses its dominant character, and in 

 exposed situations becomes a gnarled, stunted and wind- 

 flattened tree. In the protected canyons it grows to more 

 nearly normal size, but decreases in height up the slopes 

 until near the ridge summits it takes on the shape of a 

 limber pine at timber line on some high mountain. The 

 eflfect produced when viewed from a higli point is pe- 

 culiar, the canyon forests being practically flat to the 



level of the protecting ridge with the trees in the center 

 tall and straight, but decreasing in size up both slopes 

 as if they all had been clipped off to one height like 

 a hedge. 



The famous old city of Monterey is the starting point 

 for several trips which take in rare or unusual trees. 

 One of these is to the stunted, wind-flattened redwoods 

 just mentioned, which involves a trip by carriage or 

 horseback to the settlements some distance down the 

 coast. Such an excursion also shows much that is best 

 in the way of sea-coast scenery. The shorter drives 

 usually taken by the tourist from Monterey traverse the 

 range of two trees which exist only on this particular part 

 of the California coast. In fact, the main attraction of 

 one of the drives, vying in interest with the old Missions, 

 is the famous Monterey cypress. On the peninsula be- 

 tween Monterey Bay and Carmel Bay are the individual 

 trees which have been so widely pictured and are so well 

 known to tourists. They are picturesque specimens on 



STUMP OF SEQUOIA 



This stump is 20 feet in diameter. It was cut unusually high, not because 

 it was convenient to do so but because the old fire scars made it 

 worthless as lumber up to the point where the cutting was made. 

 This stands in the Sequoia National Forest, Tulare County, Cal. 



an exposed 50cky sea cliff, where the artistic setting, wide, 

 flat-topped crown, and grotesquely bent and gnarled 

 trunk and branches, create an unusual spectacle. The 

 natural belt of Monterey cypress is only a few hundred 

 feet wide along the coast, with a few trees scattered in- 

 land on the ridge of the peninsula. Although extensively 

 planted as wind breaks, there is no other natural group 

 of these trees anywhere in existence. 



Despite this fact there is a widespread belief that 

 these trees are descendants of the famous "cedars of 

 Lebanon," and despite the efforts to remove it the im- 



