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Identifier: nationalparkspor1917yard (find matches)
Title: The national parks portfolio
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. National Park Service
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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osa Grove, that stir the soul,but the bewildering and climatic repetition of monsters rising singly andsuperbly grouped from a dense and seemingly endless forest of noble growths ofmany other kinds. Without the sequoias this forest would be notable. With their constantunexpected repetition the effect is dramatic, even breath-taking. Many of thevery greatest trees are happened upon casually as the visitor winds through thebush-grown aisles of pine, and their sudden appearance is the more dramaticbecause of the freedom of their red pillared stems from the bright green flowingmoss upon the trunks and branches of the uncountable pines. Until July, 1916, when Congress appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of apart of the private holdings in the Giant Forest, it was our national misfortuneand peril that most of these monster trees remained the property of individuals.The balance of the property was purchased for $20,000 by the National Geo-graphic Society and donated to the United States. I
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9>^ .r^:^,^*:*-^^ 1^. Photograph by Lmdlcy Eddy Vistas of the Giant ForestMany of these trees were growing thriftily when Christ was born j;

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