These unstable areas receive very high amounts of precipitation, and soil is eroded very rapidly. Each cypress holds on for dear life by its roots even as it towers majestically into the sky. These forests have brought verdant life to land that had been totally barren when it was first thrust up from the ocean floor.
紅檜、扁柏等檜木林普遍生長在中海拔霧林帶，在這一段雨量最豐沛、沖蝕最嚴重的不穩定帶，一根根碩壯的檜木在崩塌線上矗立起來，遇「切」則補，讓破碎、凌亂的土地出現生命，為崩塌的土地開光補皮。