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While native to California’s Central Coast, the Monterey Cypress thrives on the North Coast. In places, the cypress were planted in hedgerows to provide windbreaks between pastures on the historic ranches of the North Coast. Such hedgerows planted in the early 1900s have become a signature element of the landscape in my home community. The seemingly constant onshore winds along the coast have shaped many of the trees into evocative trapezoidal shapes.