Preservation of the Wild 



the crowd that the prisoner was perfectly secure 

 because he was safely hanging to a neighboring 

 tree. If our preservative measures are not 

 prompt, there will be no animals to legislate for. 



SENTIMENT AND SCIENCE. 



The sentiment which promises to save the 

 Sequoia is due to the spread of knowledge regard- 

 ing this wonderful tree, largely through the efforts 

 of the Division of Forestry. In the official chro- 

 nology of the United States Geological Survey — 

 which is no more nor less reliable than that of 

 other geological surveys, because all are alike 

 mere approximations to the truth — the Sequoia 

 was a well developed race 10,000,000 of years 

 ago. It became one of a large family, including 

 fourteen genera. The master genus — the Sequoia 

 — alone includes thirty extinct species. It was dis- 

 tributed in past times through Canada, Alaska, 

 Greenland, British Columbia, across Siberia, and 

 down into southern Europe. The Ice Age, and 

 perhaps competition with other trees more success- 

 ful in seeding down, are responsible for the fact 

 that there are now only two living species — the 

 "red wood," or Sequoia sempervirens, and the 

 giant, or Sequoia gigantea. The last refuge of 

 the gigantea is in ten isolated groves, in some of 



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