FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
tends throughout the Southwest, pene- 
trating also northward and eastward, 
another kind of forest growth that is 
so distinct in character from all others 
that it should be specially described. 
It is, in fact, quite opposite in its na- 
ture to the shrubbery of the more humid 
forest regions in that it shows a tend- 
ency to seek the arid, open, sunny 
slopes, where it forms a scrubby, though 
interesting, and varied cover to the 
rough granite boulders and_ loose, 
gravelly soils. This growth is every- 
where conveniently known as “chap- 
arral,” whether it be the low, even- 
colored brush on the higher mountains 
or the dense, scraggy, promiscuous, 
and impenetrable thicket of the foot- 
hills and lower and gentler slopes. 
The impression which the chaparral 
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