Figure 1.
Fog in an old-growth redwood forest, Del Norte Redwoods State Park, near
Crescent City, California.
Note that,
within a small area of the forest, one sees redwoods of many different
sizes. Such local variation in tree size is characteristic of
old-growth forests throughout the world. In commercially-managed forests,
most trees in a stand are of similar size because they are all the same age.
Photograph by Ted.
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