| A short distance from Scripps Institution is a vast forest that is home to hundreds of species of living things. Its most well-known inhabitants are almost as tall as skyscrapers. Yet most people who live near Scripps have never visited this forest. Surprising? Not really, because it is beneath the ocean. Instead of pines or oaks, the "trees" in this forest are a type of seaweed called giant kelp. Kelp forests are found worldwide, and are often very dense along the southern California coast. Imagine swimming, rather than walking, through a forest with seals, lobsters, and hundreds of fishes as your companions rather than deer or squirrels.
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