Old-Growth Forest
I took a little detour on my way to visit my father yesterday. I took the drive from San Jose up the mountain to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It was not a favorable hour for photography, but I took a few snaps anyway. Here is a grove of some "smaller" trees with a couple of random hikers there at the base.
From "Old-Growth Forests of the Santa Cruz Mtns", by Steven Singer:
Old-growth forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregion are composed of large Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) trees that are hundreds of years old. Old-growth redwood trees are typically 4 – 10 feet in diameter and 200 – 240 feet tall. Some trees, on exceptional sites, may be taller than 280 feet, exceed 15 feet in diameter, and may be more than 1,000 years old. Old-growth redwood forest is rare in the Santa Cruz Mountains. About 96 percent of the original old-growth forest has been lost to logging. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, with about 4,300 acres of old-growth, is by far the largest remaining stand.
Old-Growth Forest
I took a little detour on my way to visit my father yesterday. I took the drive from San Jose up the mountain to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It was not a favorable hour for photography, but I took a few snaps anyway. Here is a grove of some "smaller" trees with a couple of random hikers there at the base.
From "Old-Growth Forests of the Santa Cruz Mtns", by Steven Singer:
Old-growth forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregion are composed of large Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) trees that are hundreds of years old. Old-growth redwood trees are typically 4 – 10 feet in diameter and 200 – 240 feet tall. Some trees, on exceptional sites, may be taller than 280 feet, exceed 15 feet in diameter, and may be more than 1,000 years old. Old-growth redwood forest is rare in the Santa Cruz Mountains. About 96 percent of the original old-growth forest has been lost to logging. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, with about 4,300 acres of old-growth, is by far the largest remaining stand.