Surveys made before logging began at Mt. Ali, Taiwan's earliest cypress logging area, showed that there were more than 300,000 false cypresses over 1,000 years old, but today all that remains of them is a few lonely-looking old trees scattered among introduced Japanese red cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and flowering cherries.
阿里山，台灣第一處檜木砍伐區，伐木前的調查，有三十萬棵以上的千年檜木，如今只剩幾棵孤獨老樹，在外來的柳杉、櫻花中，顯得垂垂頹矣。