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Identifier: bookofnationalpa1920yard (find matches)
Title: The book of the national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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backamong those sugar pines! Yes, and theres another.And there on the left are two or three in a clump!Back in the dim cathedral aisles are reddish glowswhich must mean still others. Your heart is beatingwith a strange emotion. You look up at the enormouslimbs bent at right angles, at the canopy of featheryfoliage hanging in ten thousand huge plumes. Youcry aloud for the sheer joy of this great thing, andplunge into the forests heart. The Giant Forest contains several thousand se-quoia trees of large size, and many young trees. Yousee these small ones on every hand, erect, sharplypointed, giving in every line a vivid impression ofquivering, bounding life. Later on, as they emergeabove the roof of the forest, for some of them are morethan three hundred feet high, they lose their sharpambitious tops; they become gracefully rounded.Springing from seed less than a quarter of an inch indiameter, they tend, like their cousins the redwoods,to grow in groups, and these groups tend to grow in
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From a photograph by S. H. Willard BULL FROG LAKE, PROPOSED ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK Along the crest of the Sierra extends a region of lofty cirques and innumerable glacier-fed lakelets

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