Redwoods Rising Marks First Five Years of Healing an Iconic Landscape
–News Direct–
California State Parks, Save the Redwoods League, and the National Park Service today announced the restoration of 3,200 acres of young, previously clear-cut redwood forest in the first five years of Redwoods Rising. The unique public-private collaborative effort with a long-term goal of restoring thousands of acres in Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) has reforested more than 25 miles of former commercial logging roads; restored more than 3 miles of streams; and created more than 100 restoration and conservation jobs.
"Redwood National and State Parks protects some of the worlds most iconic old-growth redwood groves, but past commercial logging left behind vast areas of unnatural and unhealthy younger forest that surround the ancient trees, said Ben Blom, dir...