FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
more of the flavor of wildness than do 
those of the East, though they likewise 
show many evidences of the hand of 
man. It is true that paths and roads 
lead from many familiar resorts into 
these mountain forests, that there are 
signs of the lumber industry and of 
fires, and that there are large barren 
areas where sheep have been contin- 
uously driven for pasture. Extensive 
as this interference with original condi- 
tions has been, however, the changed 
aspect of the forest has not always 
remained permanent, because nature, 
where it is possible, comes back pa- 
tiently to restore life and beauty to the 
wasted places. Over lofty ranges and 
in inaccessible places we may still find 
the original forest bequeathed to us 
from early days; but not in such places 
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