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THE SUPERB KAIBAB FOREST
Courtesy Union Pacific System
THE NORTH RIM
THERE is a remarkable difference between the north and south rims. The north rim, a thousand feet higher, is a colder country, clothed with lusty forests of spruce, pine, fir, and quaking aspen, with no suggestion of the desert.
Deer are plentiful on the north rim, and hundreds may be counted on an evening'ss ride through the Kaibab Forest. A portion of this forest was added to the national park in 1927.
The forest floor is amazingly clean, with little down timber or shrubby growths. Here and there the dense forest opens out to delightful parklike glades. These are especially the haunt of the deer.
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