. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . d in perpetuity; but these areas, while of immense recre-ational value to those who will pay the price of effort, by whichalone the true wilderness can be enjoyed, are most often high mountainareas and seldom include heavy stands of timber. Special withdrawals in the national forests, have been made oflimited areas, most often about a square mile in extent, embracingtypical examples of various kinds of natural forest, with the intentionof keeping them permanently in their na
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . d in perpetuity; but these areas, while of immense recre-ational value to those who will pay the price of effort, by whichalone the true wilderness can be enjoyed, are most often high mountainareas and seldom include heavy stands of timber. Special withdrawals in the national forests, have been made oflimited areas, most often about a square mile in extent, embracingtypical examples of various kinds of natural forest, with the intentionof keeping them permanently in their natural condition, primarilyfor scientific study and as a check on the results of experimentselsewhere. These in effect are museum specimens of many of thosetypes of forests which happen to occur on national forest lands. The national parks, for those forest areas which they include, doas much as state parks would be likely to do. But in relation to the forest scenery of California as a whole and itsenjoyment by the people of the state there are notable shortcomingsin this great system of national reservations. [46 1. Luxuriant Growth in Northern Redwood Forest (Ste pages 39 and <?« to 49) [47] CALIFORNIA STATE PARK SURVEY 1. The most notable and serious is that the great redwoods, Cali-fornias noblest forest heritage, lie almost wholly outside the nationalforests, having been acquired by private owners before the latter wereset apart. To preserve adequate and worthy examples of virgin red-wood forests is by far the most important and urgent single duty ofthe State Park Commission in relation to forest types. 2. The Big Trees of the Sierra, occurring only at rare and scatteredlocalities, are in larger proportion now included in national parks andnational forests and in all such cases permanently protected; but afew notable examples not so protected cry out for protection by thestate. 3. Certain other examples of beautiful, inspiring and botanicallyimportant types of forest an
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