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Notholithocarpus densiflorus, with Coast Douglas-firs Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. menziesii and Coast Redwood behind in Sunset Trail, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains, California. The dominant forest type in this ecoregion is the coastal redwood forest.
Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of coast redwoods. It is located 30 miles (48 km) south of Eureka, California , near Weott in southern Humboldt County , within Northern California , named after the great German ...
The other parks include the Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, and Redwood National Park. The 10,430-acre (4,220 ha) park was established in 1929 [2] and designated part of the California Coast Ranges International Biosphere Reserve in 1983. [3]
Redwoods have existed along the coast of northern California for at least 20 million years and are related to tree species that existed 160 million years ago in the Jurassic era. [95] About 96 percent of the world's old-growth coast redwood forest has been logged, [89] and almost half (45 percent) of what remains is in the RNSP. [96]
It is part of the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion and is home to the largest continuous stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco. It contains 10,800 acres (44 km 2) of old-growth forest [2] as well as recovering redwood forest, with mixed conifer, oaks, chaparral and riparian habitats. Elevations in the park vary ...
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is a state park of California in the United States established to preserve 805 acres (326 ha) of coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). The reserve is located in Sonoma County, just north of Guerneville. The reserve is in a temperate rainforest. The climate is mild and wet.
This large coast redwood, which is located on "the loop" at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, is known as "The Giant" [4] (June 2022). A young visitor to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (June 2022) The Redwood Grove comprises old-growth "virgin" redwoods, the oldest trees of which are approximately 1,400–1,800 years old and grow to ...
This was (2013) the third largest coast redwood known. A small waterfall on the side of Rhododendron Trail. Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is a state park, located in Humboldt County, California, near the town of Orick and 50 miles (80 km) north of Eureka. The 14,000-acre (57 km 2) park is a coastal sanctuary for old-growth Coast Redwood trees.