TIMBEE OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 107 
Sequoia or Californian Red Wood {Sequoia semperrirens and 
S. u-asliingtoniana) is only found on a narrow strip of 
coast line, ten to thirty miles wide, extending from the 
southern boundary of Oregon to Monterey Bay. S. semper- 
[By permission of U. >i. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Fig. 20. — Eedwood Forest (Ser/i(o/a semjiervirens) 
The man standing at foot of tree enables one to judge 
the size of some of this timber. 
In tliis place 85 per cent, of the forest is Eedwood, and 
the average diameter of the Eedwood trees at breast 
high is 7 ft. 
virens grows to a greater height than any other American 
tree and is only exceeded in girth by the " big tree " of the 
allied species. It sometimes reaches 350 ft. with an un- 
branched trunk for 100 ft. from the ground (Fig. 20). 
The timber in quality and uses is somewhat like white 
