PLATES

1 Mariposa Grove Museum and Sierra Redwood, Yosemite National Park, and Members of the Government Field School of Natural History

2 The Wawona or Tunnel Tree, Yosemite National Park, with Galen Clark, Discoverer of Mariposa Grove

3 Coast Redwood of Northern California, at Bull Creek Flat

4 Coast Redwood of Muir Woods National Monument

5 Sunlight in Coast Redwood Forest, Mill Creek Grove

6 Coast Redwood on the Redwood Highway, at Lane Flat

7 Congress Group of Sierra Redwood, Sequoia National Park6

8 Governors' Group of Sierra Redwood, Yosemite National Park

9 The Four Guardsmen, Yosemite National Park

10 Petrified Redwood at Calistoga—"The Queen of the Forest"

11 Fallen Coast Redwood Tree with Hemlocks Growing over Its Trunk

12 Coast Redwood Tree of Muir Woods, Damaged by Fire but Not Destroyed

13 Sierra Redwood Tree Growing near Aurora, New York

14 Young Sierra Redwood in Mariposa Grove

15 The Santa Clara Tree, California State Redwood Park

16 The Animal Tree, Big Basin

17 Hillside Forest of Coast Redwood, Big Basin

18 The General Sherman—the World's Largest Tree

19 The General Grant—"The Nation's Christmas Tree"

20 The Boole—the Big Tree of Converse Basin

21 The Grizzly Giant—Sentinel of the Ages

22 The Founders' Tree—the World's Tallest Tree

23 The Giant Cypress of Tule—a Relative of the Redwoods

24 The Life of a Sierra Redwood

TEXT FIGURES

1 Distribution of Coast and Sierra Redwood

2 Fossil Distribution of Redwoods

3 Foliage (3/4 natural size) and Cone (1/2 natural size) of Sierra Redwood

4 Foliage and Cone (natural size) of Coast Redwood

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