Sequoia Sempervirons, aka, Coast Redwood, is a tree species that is indigenous to California.
The Redwood rain forest once covered an area starting just inside the Oregon/California border, running south to about San Luis Obisbo, and East-West from the Pacific to the Cascade Mountains. That was solid forest, 744 miles long, about 150 miles wide (111,600 square miles). A squirrel could travel from tree top to tree top and never have to hit the ground. This forest teemed with Grizzly, Deer, Elk, and Black Bear, and Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Condor, Snowy Egrets, and many, many more. Salmon and Steelhead were abundant in our streams, and there was probably a sizeable population of banana slugs. Indigenous homo-sapien tribes lived and worked and grew old and thrived, without impacting the environment. Some of these tribes believed that the giant trees were gods. Then the white man came. Today, less than four percent of this forest is left, most of it in Humboldt, DelNorte, and Mendocino Counties. So, every tree is precious ,,,,,
Here is a menu of articles we have written concerning the great trees, and what you can do to help save them:
Our Sacred Redwoods