FOREST POLICY. 



6. Forestry movement: "To get rid of the lumber" is the 

 only demand. Conservative lumbering attempted near Pine Bluff, 

 since cut-over pine land is scarcely salable. 



7. Laws: The usual fire laws are unobserved. 



8. Reservations: None, excepting a military reserve at 

 Hot Springs. 



9. Irrigation: None. 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF CALIFORNIA: 



1. Area: 28,600,000 acres of forest, equal to 22% of area 

 of State. | 



2. Physiography: The Valley of California, drained by 

 Sacramento from the north and San Joaquin from the south, and 

 embraced by Coast Range and Sierra Range, opens towards bay 

 of San Francisco. Towards the south the Coast Range emits 

 irregular sentinels, notably the Santa Lucia Mountains, San Ga- 

 briel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, rising up to 10,000 

 feet elevation. Deserts along the Nevada, Arizona and Oregon 

 line. 



3. Distribution: California excels in the number of conif- 

 erous species, the variety of forest growth depending on the 

 peculiarities of her climate. Rain winds in southern California 

 are, strange to say, northeast winds. Rainy season begins in Sep- 

 tember, preceded by three or four months of drought. Coast 

 Range contains no commercial forests south of Santa Cruz. 

 Water courses deep seated, torrents in winter, mere threads in 

 summer, unfloatable. 



Immediately along the ocean shore, stunted conifers only 

 grow. Above shore belt, the famous redwood belt of the Coast 

 Range, consisting of Sequoia sempervirens. The redwood belt 

 extends from the Oregon line southward to Santa Cruz; it is 

 composed of large, pure redwood forests, exhibiting greatest 

 stumpage of any tree per acre. Accompanying redwood are found, 

 principally, Douglas fir, yellow pine, sugar pine, incense cedar, 

 tideland spruce and three firs (Abies grandis, magnifica and no- 

 bilis), which run up to the crest of the range. The coniferous 

 woods are intersected with tracts where chestnut oak and madrona 

 (Arbutus Menziesii) dot the brush covered slopes. The east slope 

 of the Coast Range, towards the Sacramento Valley, shows a 



