SUMMARY OF FACTS ABOUT THE BIG TREE. 



1. The dimensions of the Bio- Tree are unequaled. 



2. The ao*e of the Biof Tree makes it the oldest livinof thinof. 



3. The majestic ])eauty of the Big* Tree is unique and world-renowned, 

 tt. It now exists only in ten isolated groves on the west slope of the 



Sierra Nevada Mountains, and nowhere else in the world. 



5. The Mariposa Grove is to-day the only one of consequence which 



is completely protected. 



6. Most of the scattered groves of Big Trees are privately owned, 



and therefore in danger of destruction. 



7. Lumbering is rapidly sweeping them off; 40 mills and logging 



companies are now at work wholly or in part upon Big Tree 

 timljer. 



8. The southern groves show some reproduction, through which 



there is hope of perpetuating these groves; in the northern 

 groves the species hardly holds its own. 

 *.K The Big Tree and the smaller Coast liedwood represent a surviv- 

 ing prehistoric gemis of trees (the Sequoia.^) once widely dis- 

 tributed over the globe. 



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