THE NATIONAL FORESTS OF CALIFORNIA 5 



tant watersheds of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range, and the 

 watersheds of the Sierra Madre in southern California. 



With the extension of national forests and their management in 

 the public interest through a period of 20 years there has come to 



A GROVE OF REDWOODS (SEQUOIA SBMPERVIRENS 

 Nature in her beneficence has given to California the kiu^ of all forest trees, the Sequoia 



the people of California a realization of the value of forest protection 

 and perpetuation for the upbuilding and prosperity of the State. 

 Forest-land owners, who heretofore have given little thought to the 



