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California
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Inside Redwood National Park
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Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #3
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<b>Fire Survivor</b><br /> <br /> How do hollow redwoods survive? Despite the North Coast’s wet climate, redwood forests experience occasional wildfires. Fire plays a critical role by clearing dense ground cover and giving new seedlings the opportunity to grow. More intense wildfires remove the middle canopy layer of tanoak, hemlock, and rhododendron, scarring the redwoods as high as 100 feet above their bases.<br /> <br /> Countless wildfires have scorched the base of this redwood. Its thick, insulating bark lacks the volatile resins found in pines, firs, and spruce, and its sap is largely water. This combination slows combustion, while the surrounding vegetation burns vigorously.<br /> <br /> Fire can burn repeatedly through cracks in the bark into the heartwood but leave the outside growing layers intact. In time, the damaged heartwood decays, leaving behind hollows used as shelter by wildlife. Fire creates, not destroys, the mosaic of life in the redwood forest.
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #2
~0 min drive
.<b>Forest Everlasting</b><br /> <br /> “Sempervirens”, the scientific species name for the coast redwoods, means everlasting. Coast redwoods live longer than almost any plants on our planet. The largest trees found their first rays of sunlight when Aztecs and Mayans ruled Cen…
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Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #13
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<b>Full Circle</b><br /> <br /> For us, the character of a redwood forest changes daily. One day, shimmering strands of yellow light beam from crystal blue skies through open windows of the forest canopy. The next day may bring fog or rain, enshrouding the dark green spires an…
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<b>A Timeless Place</b><br /> <br /> Countless people through the years have entered this grove of trees. They, too, gazed at the stupendous heights of the redwoods and vainly stretched their arms around the stalwart gray trunks. How long ago did our own ancestors first share…
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