ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE 

 Along the South Fork of the Eel River, Hu 



of nearly all the Big Trees that have been stud- 

 ied, would record dry seasons and not those of 

 abundant moisture. This' theory flatly contra- 

 dicts the evidence recently deduced from a study 

 of the growth rings of these trees with reference 

 to oscillations of climate throughout the North- 

 ern Hemisphere. 



Redwoods of the Coast. 



The Redwood of the coast, Sequoia semper- 

 vlrens the immortal Sequoia welj deserves its 

 name. Far from being a "battered remnant 

 like its cousin of the 'Sierras, whose shattered 

 ranks remind one of ponderous Roman ruins, the 

 Redwood is a beautiful, cheerful and very brave 

 tree. Burned and hacked and butchered, it 

 sprouts up again with a vitality truly amazing. 

 It is this marvellous capacity for new growth 

 from trunk or from root saplings, which is per- 

 haps the most interesting character of the Red- 

 wood in contrast with the Big Tree, which has 

 no such means of regeneration and must depend 

 on its cones for reproduction. 



All the Redwood forests have been more or 

 less injured by fire, often deliberately started 

 by the lumbermen to clear away the slash, and 

 it is a wonderful sight to see a charred trunk 

 throw out a spray of new growth twenty or thir- 

 ty feet above the ground, or a new tree standing 

 on top of an ancient bole and sending its roots 

 like tentacles down into the ground around the 

 mother stump. Other trees stand athwart the 

 fallen bodies of their parents and continually 



A REDWOOD FOREST 

 Before Cutting 



