click any number on the map above to go to a location

Jug Handle Trail: Location 24

The Bolander pine (bottom-left) grows only in the pygmy forest areas along the Mendocino coast. Usually only two to five feet tall, these pines may reach a height of thirty feet when their roots can reach better soil through the cracked and broken hardpan.

The pygmy cypress (bottom-right) is also unique to the pygmy forest - though it may reach over a hundred feet tall outside, here a tree with a trunk diameter of only one inch is probably forty or fifty years old.