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Show igooj PRODUCTS 43 except the mahogany and the royal palm; while the sea- shores have a tropical border of mangroves. The western trees are nearly all soft woods and often attain gigantic dimensions. The variety is not great, but with some notable exceptions each kind has a wide distribution. To the north spruces, poplars, and the canoe birch prevail as on the opposite side of the continent; but in the important forest region from southern British Columbia into California grow trees peculiar to the district. The most important of these, the red or Douglas fir, reaches its best development around Puget Sound and for some distance north and south of that region. It grows from two to three hundred feet in height, and is associated with other fine trees, notably the tide- land spruce, the hemlock, and the red cedar. To the east of the Cascade range, though still present, these species become less important than the yellow pine. In southern Oregon the Port Orford cedar becomes common, and is followed at the Californian border by the redwood. This last covers a rather narrow belt along the coast, but has a very dense growth, and often attains a height of two hundred and fifty or three hundred feet. \ The western slopes of the Sierra Nevada also bear a very heavy forest growth, widest in northern California, and characterized by the sugar pine, the red fir, yellow pine, two true firs, and the white cedar. Most famous of all is the Big Tree ( Sequoia |