Rush into them gleefully, that is — those tall, barked hunks towering in our national-park sides of the woods, for which we’ve so pined over the past 16 days. They are open! Shutdown be gone! For now. In non-giddy English: Without fear of reprimand or worse (by feds, anyway), you may now enter Redwood National […]
Headwaters
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Headwaters: The Redwoods in our Backyard
“On March 1, 1999, the Headwaters Forest and surrounding lands … were acquired from private owners,” reads the Bureau of Land Management information booklet, which you can pick up in the Headwaters Forest Reserve parking lot. What a tale of intrigue, greed and violence that brief statement omits! It all started with a hostile takeover […]