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REDWOOD CITY, city, California, seat of San Mateo County, located at an altitude of 10 feet at the mouth of Redwood Creek and on the South'ern Pacific Railroad. 28 miles south of San Francisco. A residential and manufacturing city, it was incorporated in 1867 and has a council-manager form of government. Pop. 46,290.
REDWOOD FALLS, city, Minnesota, seat of Redwood County; altitude 1,035 feet; on Redwood River, 35 miles northwest of New Ulm. Situated in a farming region, it is a shipping point for farm produce and for Granite from neighboring quarries. Platted in 1865, Redwood Falls was incorporated as a village in 1875, as a city in 1891. Pop. 4,285.The common type is the "slope"—that is, the growth on the steep sides of the Coast Range, which is a mixture of redwood, red fir, tanbark oak and white fir, with an occasional madrofia or hemlock. As the slopes become moderate, the altitude lower, the soil deeper and the water supply better, the redwood steadily gains on the other kinds and the forest becomes denser, until on the rich flats and in the gulches the second type is developed; on the best redwood "flats" no other tree grows.
The redwood requires little of the soil except that it be moist, and those trees in a gully or along a creek are larger than their neighbors on the ridges. It is, however, so dependent on moisture of the air that this factor mainly or wholly determines its distribution, and the eastern limits of the forests are determined by the distance inland to which the sea fogs may drift. The enemies of the redwood are few, and it suffers from them less than other trees. The wind can scarcely uproot it, insects do it little harm, and fungi seldom affect it. Even fire, though it may occasionally kill whole stands of young redwood growth, is unable to penetrate the fireproof sheathing of shaggy bark with which the old trees protect themselves. A large area of redwood forest in Santa Cruz County has been reserved as a national forest-park.
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