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WOOD AND FOREST. 



80 belong to the western forests and 28 to the eastern. The Pacific 

 forest is rich in the possession of half a dozen leading species — Doug- 

 las fir, western hemlock, sugar pine, hull pine, cedar and redwood. 



Fiff. 51. Dense Forest of Huget Sound Reg-ion, Red Fir and Red Ced.ir. Pierce Co 

 Washington. U. S. Forest Scrvirc. 



Hut the far western conifers are remarkable, not onlj' for their 

 variety, but still more for the density of their growth, already men- 

 tioned, and for their great size, Fig. 52. The pines, sprnces and 

 hemlocks of the Pnget Sound region make eastern trees look small, 



