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WOOD AXU FOREST. 



The big tree, Fig. 54, occurs exclusively in groves, which, however, 

 are not pure, but are scattered among a much larger number of trees 

 of other kinds. 



. 53. Redwood Forest. Santa Cruz Co., Calif. U, S. Forest Service. 



The great and unsurpassed Puget Sound forest is destined to be 

 before long the center of the lumber trade of this country. 



These two great forests of the east and the west both run north- 

 ward into British America, and are there united in a broad belt of 



