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Title: Forest trees of the Pacific slope
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Forest Service Sudworth, George Bishop, 1862-1927
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n large trees isbelieved to exceed 500 years. Trees from 18 to 25 inches in diameter are from145 to 190 years old. EANGE. Southwestern Washington to southern California. Cascades, from Skamania County,Wash., southward through those of Oregon (chiefly on west slope) and coast ranges and 274 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Sierras of California to San Jacinto Mountains. Shrubby thronshout its range, exceptin Oregon Cascades and in coast mountains of northwestern California. Washington.—At Moffats Springs, Skamania County, the only station now known. Oregon.—Valley of Columbia Kiver, in vicinity of the Cascades, and soutliward overwestern slope of latter range, often crossing to east slope, as at Mount Pitt, and extend-ing eastward to Klamath-Deschutes Divide; generally at 2,000 to 5,000 feet elevation;also in Siskiyous and westward to southern coast mountains of Siskiyou National Forest.Locally noted at Dalles of Columbia, on Mount Hood, near rim of Crater Lake and atIort Orford.
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Fig. 121.—Casianopsis cluysoiihtjlJa, flowering branch. Califounia.—Lower mountain slopes throughout northern part, from seaward coastrange, eastward to Mount Shasta, and southward on l)oth slopes of coast ranges, andmainly on west slope of Sierras, to San .Jacinto Mountains ; generally at 3,000 to 6,000feet, in north, but at 8,000 to 10,000 feet in south. High ridges of Klamath and TrinityNational forests (as chaparral), but also below 3,500 feet and under Douglas flr, espe- « The shrubby form of eastern California has been described as C. sempervirens (Kell.)Dudley, and that of the southern coast ranges has been separated as C. chrysophyllaminor Benth. FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 275 cially on South Fork of Trinity River ; locally noted on South Fork Mountain and ou Can-yon Creek. In yellow pine belt, at 3,000 to 6,000 feet in Mount Shasta National Forest,being locally noted west of McCloud. In Plumas, Diamond Mountain, and Lassen Peak,Yuba, Tahoe, and Stanislaus Nationa

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