DISTRIBUTION OF AMEEICAN FORESTS 



and uniform; where the forest is given 

 over, it may be, almost entirely to a 

 single kind of tree. In other places 

 the trees may join in varied luxuriance, 

 young and old, familiar and strange, on 

 some fertile, protected plain or well 

 watered mountain side. In still other 

 places they may be seen struggling up 

 the steep slopes and maintaining a 

 precarious existence on bleak, rocky 

 ridges. 



While the eastern portion of the 

 United States is, generally speaking, 

 the home of the broadleaf species, and 

 the northern and western portions are 

 similarly occupied by the coniferous 

 forests, these areas may readily be sub- 

 divided into specified regions of distinct 

 forest growth. The latter, however, 

 cannot be accurately delimited, since 

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