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T Fort Bragg, Ca., it's Trees, yes, Cattle, no.

Back in the early 1900s, arnbitious Western entrepreneurs thought to turn 5,000 acres of lush coastal timberlands into a big beef producing ranch. It didn't work.

They chose land where the coastal redwoods grow. This persistent tree has turned many a land-clearing would-be rancher into a tired, depressed shell of his former self.

Noyo Land & Cattle Co. of Mendocino County. Ca.. is long since gone. The redwoods have reclaimed the cleared pastureland. Now in their third harvesting, they continue to shoot skyward on hillsides once covered with grass for cattle. Cattlemen repeatedly cut and burned lands in their unsuccessful attempt to kill the redwood trees. But the roots continued to sorout new trees even while old trees beyond pioneers' reach diecl of old age and storms.

Georgia-Pacific Corp., which todaY owns tnuch of the Noyo comPanY lands. is thinning new generations of the redwoods that took over, to increase growth of the younger trees. A prolific sprouter, the redwoods rise again and again from stump or roots and so. what killed the cattle business, will serve the needs of succeeding generations as a modern, managed forest.

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