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Image 1. The Smith River, in northwestern California, flowing
through a mixed, but mostly redwood, forest.

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Image 2. The Smith River, in northwestern California, flowing
through a mixed, but mostly redwood, forest.

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Image 3. A mixed forest along the Smith River, northwestern California

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Image 4. A redwood forest inSonoma Co.

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Image 5. Redwoods and Rhododendrons, Mendocino County

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Image 6. A redwood forest, Sonoma Co.

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Image 7. A redwood forest, Sonoma Co.

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Image 8. A redwood forest, Sonoma Co.

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Image 9. Live oak woods northern California

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Image 10. Sunlight filtering into a foggy redwood forest, Sonoma Co.

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Image 11. A view of Redwood National Park

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Image 12. A madrone tree in a mixed forest along the Klamath River

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Image 13. Coast live oaks, Tilden Park near Berkeley
Photograph by Sylvia Sharnoff

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Image 14. Coast live oaks, Tilden Park near Berkeley
Photograph by Sylvia Sharnoff

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Image 15. Coast live oaks with a lot of lichen on them,
a mix of Usnea spp.
and Ramalina spp.
Photograph taken in early spring, Carmel Valley, California.

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Image 16. Oaks and other trees along a northern California river

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Image 17. Oaks and other trees along a northern California river

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Image 18. Morning light in a mixed forest, Mendocino Co.

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Image 19. Morning light in a mixed forest, Mendocino Co.

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Image 20. Morning mist over a mixed forest west of Garberville

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Image 21. Buckeye trees draped with lace lichen, Ramalina menziesii
Photograph by Sylvia Sharnoff

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Image 22. Oak trees in Sonoma Co.

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Image 23. Mill Creek, in the Mattole River watershed

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Image 24. Second-growth mixed Douglas-fir and redwood forest, Mendocino Co.

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Image 25. Second-growth mixed Douglas-fir and redwood forest, Mendocino Co.

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Image 26. Windblown alder trees along the northern California coast,
in Usal, north of Mendocino


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Image 27. Sillhouette of an oak branch, Sonoma Co.

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Image 28. Alder trees with lichens

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Image 29. Pygmy Forest in coastal Mendocino Co.
This forest grows on very old, acidic leached soil.

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Image 30. Pygmy Forest in coastal Mendocino Co.
The taller trees are growing on better soil; the short ones in front are growing on the flat, hardpan soil of the true Pygmy Forest.


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Image 31. Pygmy Forest: a pygmy cypress, Hesperocyparis pygmaea

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