THE SECRET OF THE BIG TREES. 
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^ illage and inquires whether there are not some old men of long 
experience who can tell the story of the past. So it is with trees; 
like old men, they cherish the memory of hundreds of interesting 
events, and all that is needed is an interpreter. 
During* the summers of 1911 and 1912 the natural course of the 
writer’s study of the climate of the past led him to attempt to learn 
MARIPOSA GROVE, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. 
Photograph by Pillsbury Picture Co. 
The Mariposa Grove is situated in the southern portion of the Yosemite National 
Park, 35 miles from Yosemite Valley. There are two other groves of big trees 
in the Yosemite National Park—the Tuolumne Grove of 20 trees 17 miles 
northwest of Yosemite Valley and the Merced Grove of 40 trees 9 miles north¬ 
west of Yosemite Valley. 
from the big trees at least a part of their story. During the 3,000 
or 4,000 years covered by recorded human history, as I have shown 
in “The Pulse of Asia,” “Palestine and its Transformation,” and 
various magazine articles, the climate of western and central Asia 
