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...Stealing in Arizona: National Park Service officials will soon embed microchips in Arizona's signature saguaro cactus plants to deter thieves who dig them up and sell them to landscapers and nurseries. The microchips, which are inserted with a syringe, will help authorities identify stolen plants. Seventeen Carnegiea gigantea were stolen from Arizona's Saguaro National Park last year; they sell for about $1,000 each. The saguaro isn't the only cactus to be microchipped; Arizona and Nevada put chips in barrel cacti...
...small town of Threerivers, Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...
Arizona Cacti. The giant saguaro cacti, Carnegiea gigantea (named for Andrew Carnegie)-which are not especially useful, but add an exotic beauty to Arizona's landscape-have now & then fallen sick, but in 1940 a bacterial disease attacked them with unusual virulence. Some giants developed oozy cankers, bled to death in a fortnight. Some developed rot pockets. Some looked healthy, then toppled suddenly to reveal decayed roots. The disease still rages and Plant Pathologist James Greenlief Brown of the University of Arizona and co-workers told how to save the giant cactus from extinction. Small sores...
...many will go to the nation's most popular park, Yosemite, where Director Cammerer was due this week. Main gateway to the Yosemite is Merced, in central California. Pert, goodlooking college boys drive the buses and co-eds perform cheerfully but inexpertly as waitresses. Whopping groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed...
Sequoia sempervirens is the scientific name for redwood. It grows only along a short section of the northern California coast, thriving in the cool, moist air. A relative, but no longer cut commercially, is Sequoia gigantea or "Big Tree." Mature redwoods are also Big Trees-300 ft. high, 30 ft. through the butt...
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