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the Great Plains and the Sierra Nevada, from Mexico to Canada. 
They are broken by many treeless valleys or plateaus. Because of 
rough topography and inaccessibility to transportation routes, it is 
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FicurE 9.—Cabbage palmetto. 
A characteristic tree of the Florida landscape. 
likely that forests of parts of this region, together with the less 
accessible of the mountain forests near the Pacific coast, will be the 
last to be cut. Many forests in the Rocky Mountain region, however, 
