Bui. 49, Bureau of Forestry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate 111 



Fig. 1— View in a Cedar Brake. 



The adobe soil and rocks are covered with a thin layer of brown soil and forest debris, showing 

 capacity of cedar to accumulate soil even on the arid slopes of crumbly limestone. 



Fig. 2.— Characteristic Occurrence of Cedar upon a Steep Slope Covered by 

 Loose Limestone Talus, upon Which Most Vegetation is Unable to Establish 

 Itself. 



Urv bed of Bull Creek. 



