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rough topography and inaccessibility to transportation routes, it is 
hkely that forests of parts of this region, together with the less 
accessible of the mountain forests near the Pacific coast, will be the 
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FIGURE 9.—Cabbage palmetto. 
A characteristic tree of the Florida landscape. 
last to be cut. Many forests in the Rocky Mountain region, however, 
by protecting the sources of water utilized for irrigation, for city 
water supplies, and for other purposes, are performing a function of 
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