But the great wall of 20 million gigantic false cypress trees which once stretched the length of Taiwan had already been breached. Apart from some scattered local stands, the Taiwan red cypress forest of Mt. Hsiukulan in central Taiwan, and the 10,000-plus hectares of Taiwan yellow cypress at Mt.
但過去兩千萬棵巨木築成的南北檜木長堤被斬斷，除了局部殘林，中部秀姑巒山區的紅檜林，與北台灣宜蘭棲蘭山一萬多公頃的扁柏，已是台灣最後的神木林。