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Nature Notes From Crater Lake

Volume 2, No. 1, July 1929

 

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Tree Curvature
By L. D. Leslie, Ranger-Naturalist

A majority of the trees growing on the steep moraines of old Mount Mazama have a pronounced curvature at their base. So prominent is this bending that many tourists wonder at the phenomenon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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