FIG. 22. The climax conditions are rapidly going' from this Idaho forest area. 



Fire has destroyed the biotic complex. The water cycle is out of control, is 



tearing 1 the remaining 1 natural machinery to pieces. Only heroic measures 



reseeding of grasses or hand planting 1 of trees could save this area. 



FIG-. 23. The end of a Texas climax. It is May, but where are the leaves of 

 the shrubs, the lush and succulent grasses, the fat steers? This is overgrazing 

 carried to its bitter conclusion. Not satisfied with a normal surplus which the 

 climax provides, man has enforced demands which broke the productive cycles, 

 The result; is a desert With 25 inches of rain per year, 



