Why California Razed it's Ancient Redwood Forests
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The history of California's lost redwood forests is a poignant tale of environmental transformation and exploitation. Before the mid-19th century, vast expanses of ancient redwood groves blanketed the coastal regions of northern California, creating awe-inspiring landscapes with towering trees that stood for thousands of years. However, the Gold Rush of 1849 triggered an influx of settlers, leading to widespread logging and clearing of these majestic forests to meet the demands for timber and land. The once-spectacular redwood ecosystems, with trees reaching heights of over 300 feet, were decimated by the logging industry. Despite conservation efforts in the 20th century, a significant portion of California's original redwood forests is forever lost, serving as a reminder of the delicate balance between human progress and the preservation of natural wonders. Today, the remaining redwood groves, such as those in Redwood National and State Parks, stand as living monuments to the resilience of these ancient giants and the ongoing commitment to their conservation.
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Smith documented, not discovered, the redwoods.
Bro, you are the best source for California history. Thank you for your videos
The pictures resemble those from the early times of whalers. As a child in the early 60's I recall seeing logging trucks on 101 with only one huge log on them. When one enters an old house with redwood (or even fir) trim the grain is so amazingly tight. You can't find wood of that quality on the market today, let alone trim or frame a whole house from it. Recycled/repurposed redwood from old houses, barns and water tanks from that period, is incredibly valuable, even with a few old, corroded nail holes. It is easily recognizable by its tight grain. Sure, you can still buy "redwood." But redwood trees need hundreds and (thousands) of years to produce high quality wood that was cut in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I am very thankful that at least a few of the matriarchs have been preserved.
Yup same. They were still cutting down trees when I was a kid that it seemed normal to see a one-log logging truck. The trees were of such diameter that only one section of one tree could be loaded on the trucks.
Same truck now is filled with toothpicks.
"Redwood" sold today at a big box store lumber department is not at all the same. It's all basically 30 year old redwoods grown on tree farms where 2000 year old trees once grew.
I didn't realize the magnitude of that as a kid. It just seemed normal.
And now there are no more giants to cut down.
We have the same tight-wood effect here in Colorado. My theory is that it is due to the water and sugar uptake/downflow along the trunk. In Colorado there is a severe dry/hot/cold/freezing cycle. As such, any tall trees have a difficult time getting nutrients up/down from the needles/platelets. The harsher the environment, the smaller will the banding be. We have Ponderosas in our backyard which are over 100+years old and they are only about 24-inches wide. We are on the east side of mountains, in a rain shadow, and this only allows for sporadic water influx through their roots. Each yearly layer is very thin.
All of San Francisco should be replanted in Redwood trees…
My 1926 house in nor cal has redwood beams and built ins- unfortunately someone painted it all but you can still see the difference.
@@archstanton_live
So true I lived in a beautiful little home in North Oakland that was built in 1954 ham built by the man who lived and died in it, and it was entirely framed in old growth, rough cut Redwood and if you dismantled that house and sell the wood for $100,00 or more
Back in the mid 1970's as I was traveling through northern California, we passed truck after truck after truck loaded with redwoods.
It's funny here in The Great Industrial Northeast, a truck can load twenty or thirty pine logs but those trucks had a maximum of four logs per trailer.
And the worst part was that the loggers left a quarter mile of redwoods alongside roads untouched to give the impression that the redwood forests were untouched. Meanwhile, behind the facsade, the forests were being clear cutted.
they still do the facade cutting, even here in Oregon
Got to Google maps satellite view and take a look at British Columbia. Same thing only BC is mostly unpopulated so you can still see the clear cutting from space.
During my teens I saw plenty of fully loaded log trucks carrying just 3 logs! They weren't redwoods but I don't know where they were getting them from.
@@energizerwolf5574 WOW! You're uneducated. Clear cutting of old growth trees on the Pacific coast is definitely still happening and it's a huge problem with less than 5% remaining. There have been huge protests and mass arrests in British Columbia over the clear cutting of old growth rain forest in the past few years. Maybe read up and learn about this before you make false statements like "no one is trying to massacre the real giants".
Also, maybe study English a bit more too. "noone" is not a word.
@@energizerwolf5574both of those are debatable -- yes, redwoods grow fast, ~150 feet in a human life, but girth comes later, during old growth phase at about 200 years.
but more importantly, there will always be people like Charles Hurwitz willing to take over and destroy a family owned company with a more that 50 year history of sustainable business practices to maximize profit over community.
Some people only see the multimillion dollar value of each of "the real giants" and will do whatever it takes to turn them into gold (dollars)
When you're around these giants they really seem like entities rather than just all trees.
They are trees
@@JoeRogansForehead Humans are bags of water.
Yes
They are entities
I have thought of it that way and when you stand in a grove and look up...Yeah... Try it sometime. A lot of people don't slow down to take it in. If you don't do this when you go to the Redwoods you missed the point. The one thing on earth that is truly bigger life.
I am from Northern California. There were smaller redwoods in my backyard growing up. Great video. I suggest everyone go see those trees at least once in your life.
I went to see this with my Grandparents in the mid 1990's. It's amazing that some of those trees were around roughly when Jesus, was doing His earthly ministry.
I live in N.C. and going out on a slow ride west across route 56 up the 101 and then back across either 90, 80, or multiple secondary roads is on my bucket list. I would love to see the old growth redwoods and the other beautiful things our country has to offer. I'm 46, and by God, I will travel one day.
Rarely use the term "spiritual" but best description of what I've felt *alone, just self and one to a few friends/fam* on trail untraveled among the giants.
Not even sure I want to watch vid, grateful for what was saved, what was lost tho....
There were trees in Berkley area used by seafarers as a navigation point, up to 32ft (11m) in *diameter,* probably 300ft plus tall, pinpointing the entrance to SF Bay.
Just example of a place we may forget was ever spectacular.
You said you had redwood in your yard. Why are they gone?
@@genes3088 Funnny you ask. I no longer live there. But I recently looked on google maps to see if they are still there and they are. In fact they are the only ones in the whole area. I used to use them when I first walked around my neighborhood to always know where my house was because they towered over everything. They were crazy tall and I used to climb them but the limbs break easily so I had some close calls with my friends so we quit at like 13 years old. One fell on our house when we were all inside. It was loud. They fall easily and its kind of a problem. Here they are if you want to see them maps.app.goo.gl/C51pSwNu4hpPKrNj9
I've stood under some red woods before and the size and scale is unimaginable until you are there.
Redwood trees like the Golden Gate Bridge can't compare to being there.
Walking across the bridge or walking underneath the moorings, you'll hear the bridge and realize it's living.
One thing he didn't mention is the coast redwoods grow in a narrow fog belt in the coast range. Once, I spent the night (at least part of it) under one of those giant redwoods. As soon as the fog rolled in, it started raining under that tree. The fog condensed on all the small leaves and dripped to the ground. I moved to a small clearing away from the big trees and the rain stopped. Was very strange.
I just recently built a mandolin. For the soundboard instead of using the usual sitka spruce I used redwood that was salvaged from the bottom of the American river for what I would imagine to be over a hundred years. The average width of the growth rings is about twenty thousands of an inch and the board was six inches wide showing two hundred and fifty years!
They Do Grow Incredibly Slow.
Sometimes Things Are Worth The Wait, Eh?
The American River, eh?
@@nickb8755
I guess it's possible there could be some small Sequoiadendron giganteum groves in the upper reaches of the American River.
But it's crap wood for building.
I'd guess the board might be legit. Lots of Sequoiadendron sempervirens (Coast Redwood) shipped down from the North Coast to build all over California.
Maybe it used to be part of a barn or house that ended up washed downstream in the American River, where OP found it?
Either way, sounds like a nice piece of wood.
Nice that it will bring music.
@@fullonfog Ive hiked parts of that river, and if they are there, it is only the young ones.
The redwood forests were cut down to build towns that were later largely bulldozed to make room for highways and parking lots.
Many were cut to rebuild SF after the earthquake and fire of 1906.
Didn't he say that San Francisco burned down 7 times?
The trees are still there besides the roads. And they are in the sequoias and kings national park.they are not lost I see them all the time.
@@paranormalwheelers didn't they say less than 5% old growth still alive?
Here in Michigan there was a small Forrest of Virgin Trees in a Preserver The Russ Forrest for the last 70 years but a really strong Stright line wind blew them all over like 8 years ago .. The Origional Growth trees are 600 to 2,000 years old .
Now those places left are being hit with DEW’s. Up in smoke. A few things are common. The communities are wealthy and have high land value coupled with under insurance. When they are burned out or flooded most cannot afford to rebuild. They are forced to move. The land is scooped up Pennie’s on the Dollar.
I recently went to the second largest Douglas fur tree in Canada. Big Lonely Doug is his name. It would have been amazing to see the Island before they cut down almost all the old growth. Standing in front of Doug was quite the memory to make with my kids.
Many more Big Lonely Dougs to see in BC...but not so lonely with lost of other dougs around.. Many groves of original forest can be seen from downtown Vancouver, but most people don't know what to look for and the trails are not groomed for easy access, but I assure you there is a great deal of original forest left in this province and a significant portion of it is protected through various layers of legislation.
...and though I too wish that there were more original forests, I also have to consider that the alternative to building with a renewable resouce like wood, is to build with things like steel and concrete which both contribute to more than 15% to global GHG emissions. Wood is mother natures building material and if the forests are managed sustainably as is required by British Columbia law, then it is by far the better alternative than living in homes of steel and concrete.
@@seansteede My goal is building a cob house on Vancouver Island. Currently working behind the scenes on getting the government to allow the permits and all that fun stuff. I've already got my land and am hoping to get the Mud Girls to help me.
@@seansteede There Are Plenty Of Fast Growing Renewable Trees... Redwoods And Old Growth Pines Shouldn't Have Been Touched. I Personally Want To Ask, Why Didn't They Use Brick? Maybe Redwood Became A Status Symbol? Either Way, It's Disgusting To Look Back On.
@@StarfireReborn Well, to start with Pines are generally renewed by mother nature through fire. Rarely will a pine tree live beyond 200 years so it all depends on your definition of old growth. Is it not better to use that pine to frame a building that can last for well over a hundred years and sequester that carbon while creating a new space for younger pine forests to grow than simply leave them to burn? The same argument can be said for Redwoods though admit they are generally much longer lived trees and the carbon sequestration piece is less impactful. Still, if harvested in a sustainable manner then that is all that should matter. Frankly I don't know much about brick but my guess is the sourcing of materials and kilning is likely quite carbon intensive, and the weight makes them harder to transport and handle. Costs of brick are likely far higher than wood and quality mason is far more difficult than a carpenter / framer. Lastly there is the performance, a well insulated wood frame house will consume significantly less energy to heat and cool as compared to a brick house, further making brick more carbon intensive over it's life cycle. Still far better than concrete or steel though.
Company man i know, chopped off a red tree that was in his way of creating a farming field for his business to grow weed In California. Investigator called at the site started to cry; slapped him with a 200k fine & full protection for the other trees. Totally bonked.
Good
👍
Makes you wonder what some people think of is more valuable greed is uncontrollable for some. I’m sure he could’ve farmed around the trees. SMH
So much for Love and Peace Man. Just another greedy businessman. Serves him right 100%
Weed is an annual crop, redwoods are legacy. Dude should be doing time.
Glad that at a point in time, someone thought outside of the box and petitioned to save what could be saved, before everything was chopped down.
you should read about Teddy Rosevelt. what he did in terms of preserving american wildlife is maybe the single most important event in american history
Redwood Box?
Just went to John Muir Woods and Sequoia National Park last June. Absolutely amazing.
Go to the Rockefeller Forest in Humboldt Redwoods State Park and you'll be in tears as you commune with the Gawd Mother.
I live in Kaweah.
It’s maddening to see what happened to the old growth forests across the United States….. Thankfully what was left uncut is protected and preserved. Here on the East Coast many wilderness areas were logged out and never recovered. 🤨
There is a park in New Jersey somewhere that has old growth forest of cedars .it was never logged.ive never been there but always wanted to go
Such a shame really if I could I would buy land and plant the native trees once again.
Maryland has a hard-on for suburban sprawl, so many upon MANY of our vegetation along the NEC/I-95 corridor are being wiped out by more useless megaplex communities.
A damn shame 😔
It's just trees lol calm down
In the 70"s I worked at Fort Ord in California dismantling old buildings... The WWII barracks were all sided with redwood. Hundreds of buildings all covered with that material.
Oh My Gosh. That's Incredibly Sad.
I'm Not Like A Nature Freak, Or A Vegetarian. I Believe If Humans Need Something, We Take It.
Some Things Are Off The Table & Always Give Back.
@@StarfireReborn I agree with you.
The wood was used for its insect and fire resistance.
@@-oiiio-3993 30 plus years later the siding was still in very good shape, Fort Ord suffered from very wet fog most of the year.
@@denniss618 Indeed.
As a little Canadian kid, I grew up on the North end of Vancouver Island in the farthest remote logging camp, Camp Vernon 25 miles from Camp Woss where I went to school from grade one to three..They were logging the massive West Coast Douglas fir,
The method was clear-cutting. The logging company had Canada's largest privately owned railroad.. I was there from 1954 to 1963. I left at 9 years old ...when I was in my 40's I went back, the logging camp was gone just the foundations of buildings were left..I was blown away by the devastation of the forests. The whole valleys had been clear-cut almost up to the alpine with just massive stumps everywhere...Once it's gone it has a terrible effect on all the forest flora and fauna..It saddens me what had happened, I shudder to think of what the old Redwood valleys look like....Liked and Subbed...Thank You for posting this video.
Pa used have 20 some different pines not anymore, I sawmill trees but rarely cut down a live tree i try to salvage what nature provides. I love moving logs weighing thousand of lbs I've never been over 130 lbs myself . Sawdust is my glitter.
I've been paying the bills by cutting trees for utility clearance and residential for the last decade and a half. There's still big trees buried back in the woods, but where I'm from in Northern Indiana used to be a temperate rainforest and grassy marsh stretching from Ohio to Illinois. They drained it off with the Kankakee ditch and sold it as farmland. Entire species of trees were lost; swamp oaks, cypress, etc... an estimated 80% of native migratory bird species were lost. This area used to be called Chicago's breadbasket. It's all corn and soybean and abandoned factories now. We really know how to screw up paradise. I don't know where I fit into it all. Just trying to get by and leave something for the next generation to screw up, I guess.
@@turdferguson2982 I Wanted To Be A Geologist.
Instead I Work For One Of The Largest Polluters On The Planet And I See Their Trash Along My Neighborhood Streets, Into The Country, Along The Highways That Span The Nation. That's What Systemic Greed Does.
@@StarfireReborn that is what it does.
Such a shame. I was in Point Arena were a group of people live in an area were redwoods grow. I saw the remains of the biggest redwoods. In 2018 wheny father died we deposited a part of his cremated remains in one of the sawn of Redwoods. It was an enormous stump. I always wondered how this area would look if these biggest trees were not logged. I really felt sad about that.
Pure American greed and selfishness, to see such marvel and cut it down to extinction for profit and convenience.
95% destroyed and yet many Americans still pushing to extract the last drops.
My first house was 2 hours east of s.f, built in 1955 out of redwood from the studs to the siding..
Well done, thank you. Yurok still there, along with Hupa (Hoopa) tribes. Pictures will never compare to being under these forests, a very spiritual experience, witnessing God's creation
My former mother in law has a house in Truckee CA. She has a Redwood in her front yard. In fact it is the tallest redwood not only in Truckee but the tallest redwood on North Lake at 278ft as of 2018 when last measured. She had to build a three car parking carport with steel framing and three layers of corregated steel roof for her car and visitors. The pine cones that fall off of Nancy are 8 to 12 inches in diameter.
Redwoods don't have Pine cones. Redwood cones are about an inch' long.
Definitely not a redwood redwoods only grow in the coastal region Truckee is in the Sierra Nevada mountain range there are several trees from afar that look like a redwood which would be the Sequoia and the incense Cedar both of which get massive and have huge reddish trunks in old age those are the two trees that you would see in the Truckee area definitely no redwoods unless someone had planted one which is impossible if it's over 200 ft tall and the very few people that do plant redwoods in the Sierra Nevada mountains soon realize that they are not meant for this climate it's too cold they do not Thrive here in fact they'll do better in Sacramento if given water than they would in Truckee
No redwoods near Truckee. She probably has sugar pine trees. The sugar pine has pinecones that can grow to 22 inches. You would not want one of those to fall on your car.
Yeah she's doesn't have a coastal redwood. They do not make large cones. They make tiny cones.
@@conjumonblue6450 yep! Sugar Pine for sure!
I’ve planted many of these trees on the central coast around Cambria. Lucky they do grow fast and got through droughts. One tree was a live Christmas tree that I planted 25 years ago and probably 35 ft tall now
What Are You Saying?
You Planted A Christmas Tree?
Redwoods Grow Extremely Slow.
They Are Titans, A Christmas Tree Doesn't Match Up.
@@StarfireReborn ahahahaha what are you saying? Redwoods grow extremely fast like up to 10 ft a year then they slow down at a certain size and THEN start growing slow. many huge trees now are just a century old. Redwoods are some of the fastest growing trees in the WORLD.
NE Wisconsin we get 150 foot oak trees. Attempting to picture something almost triple that. Jaw dropping.
150' oak trees😳
@kk-wh3hb those rare monsters are disappearing, too.
@@gearheadgregwi that figures 😞
To anyone even thinking visiting any of the Redwood Foriest it is well worth the time and money, please take your time and get out of your car and walk among the trees...... Another great watch from Ryan and It's History.....
I have done that in Point Arena mendocino county. In 1974 and 2018. It was beautiful and sad at the same time. The stumps of the biggest ones were found Everywhere.
Indeed. I just got back from Redwood National Park. Drove the 10 hours to get there from Utah. My jaw was literally dropped when I saw these entities and felt their prescence. I couldnt close my mouth for like 10 minutes while around them because my jaw wouldn't come up because i was so shocked. Also got emotional. Glad I didnt know at the time that so many of them have been cut down. Sometimes humans are disgusting creatures.
@@renegadezen7841 Not getting weird here but the first time I saw the Redwoods I just thought what God had put in motion....
Did you do the "Drive-Thru-Tree?
@@jetsons101 i did not. didn't have a lot of time in the actual redwood park because i had to make it to a backpacking trail before the light ran out but i walked around on a little hike in that park amongst the giants and will never forget it. want to go back and see the Sequoias.
As part of the preservation process, have new redwoods been planted?
In 1995 I flew over much of the clear cut forest area from North of Clearlake Calif. to Eureka Calif. in a private plane. The clearcut areas I could see from our route were all planted forest, now, of small trees. Looking like miles of choose and cut Christmas tree farms. In another 100 to 200 years the area will look like a real forest. Unknown to me if they planted Redwood trees, Fir trees, or Pine trees.
There are a few things in life that awe-inspired me.
The Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes, and the Redwoods!
I drove my motorcycle along that Avenue of the Giants.
43 years later I'm still awe-inspired.
Well that was downright tragic 😮
I Agree Wholeheartedly.
I am from Melbourne, Australia and there is a mini redwood forest near the Yarra Ranges National Park in Warburton East..🪵🪵🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 Someone obviously brought them trees over here to Australia coz they miss their home in California, USA..🪵🪵🌳🌳🌳😃😃
@sunflower_1990 Well, some good Australian repaid the compliment by bringing over Eucalyptus Trees and planting them here in California. I live in Burlingame and these beautiful trees line our streets. I love them. Thanks Australia!
It was criminal that such destruction was perpetrated on the redwood forest. Yes, I know hindsight is easy and is basically just complaining about History.
For thousands of years every 50 to 100 years, or so, fires would scorch the earth, clearing it of brush, fir, and other species. These fires opened the redwood cones, and made room for new seedlings. "El Nino" rain patterns fallowed thus giving the trees a fighting chance to expand the forest. It is a shame that the sate of California does not provide more incentive to replant lands that were once vast old growth. Simply giving out seedlings, and a square of filter cloth could, perhaps, slowly revers the scars on the land.
I would gladly plant redwoods back in their native areas the red wood forest is believed to of reached down to central coast. But that’s is speculation Big Sur has a few redwood forest so I wouldn’t doubt there was a connection there.
Centuries Of Earthquakes And Tsunamis Have Ravaged The West Coast, And Those Redwoods Survived Every One Of Them. All It Took Was A Few Years Of Humans To Nearly Extinct Them. 😞
Thanks for discussing an interesting history. A worthy sequel to this would be how the weather has changed as a consequence of such large expanses of old growth forestry having disappeared. The moisture retention, solar shading, wind dissipation, humidity enhancement, of ~1.9 million acres of dense, tall, coastal forest must be staggering
Seriously. I Can't Imagine The Dewy Sunlight Filtering Through Foggy 1700's California... How Amazing That Must've Been To See From A Ship. How Amazing It Must've Been To Walk Through Each Day, Living With Your Family In The Trees.
I concur!!! All of San Francisco, and northern coast line should be replanted in redwood forest and native plants!!!
The weather hasn't changed turn off the fake billionaire news.
I love redwoods and sequoias such majestic powerful trees. I love walking deep into the last remaining old growth groves
Wish you'd have clarified the difference between coastal redwoods ( sequoia sempervirens) and the redwoods further inland in the Sierras, (sequoiadendron giganteum). A lot of confusion results from neglecting to distinguish between the two.
I can dig it. I formerly lived in Santa Cruz, Felton... now in Kaweah.
Very good content, thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you too!
This is my 3rd video from you and just want to say thanks for your time I enjoy learning new things when bored. The way you put your videos together is enjoyable.
Awesome, thank you!
Rod Deal & The Ideals have a record about this.
Thanks for sharing about The Redwood Curtain.
Hi Ryan, A History lesson I know something about, My parents moved to Calif back in 1957, (ya a grapes of wrath real life story, mine lol) anyway I lived South in the SF Bay Area so I have been to this area many many many times with my family and yes drove my car thru the tree, but as always your lesson taught more about these GREAT GIANT REDWOOD TREES, thank you for all of your study time on subject matters and yes I moved out of Calif back in 1992...
That's my family story also. But they came earlier, settled in Watsonville, Aromas, and Monterey . We moved in 1967.
For a long segment of your presentation I was wondering "wot no Carson House?" Thank you very much for at least briefly touching on what may well be the most complex redwood Victorian structure in California.
The Carson House was shown in the video. Chet, Eureka.
Florida and Georgia used to have old growth cypress stands that were razed for ship building back in the 17th century.
Californian / real Americans didn't do it ,it was Euros
If certain people had not intervened, they would have all been gone by now...
Not true
There is a redwood tree about 20 feet in circumference in my friends backyard.
It's worth more than the home he lives in.
Just the burl is worth $100K, im guessing.
The city will never give a permit to cut it down.
Bro, why doesn't your generation know how to use apstrophes?
I'm Glad The City Won't Allow It To Be Cut. 🤦🏽♀️
Now I really want to go see the tree in your friend's backyard.
I have been to the Redwood forest a couple times and seeing them in a pictures is one thing but seeing them in person is amazing. To stand and look up at these trees is a sight to be seen. BTW, if you have ever seen Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi that was mostly filmed up there in the Redwood forest.
And today their descendants still don't maintain the Forrest the way they should
I can't watch this. I am Californian. It hurts too much.
I remember driving through a forest of redwoods just north of San Francisco, I often wonder if it still exists? Yeah it hurts to much, sometimes. ✌️
We never should of cut them down nobody ever appreciates natural beauty until it's gone.
They’re not gone? We still have plenty of Redwoods stretching hundreds of miles!
This video is slightly misleading.
Should of? Where'd you go to school? Does your mommy still tie your shoes? 😂😂😂
You are a murican aren't you? The country was not empty when the greatest nation went there. The natives pretty much appreciated the natural beauty of the land until they went gone or transfered to a reservate.
@@Zodroo_Tint it wasn't my family that did all that
What has always shocked me is the waste. I’ve seen redwood used as pilings and ridiculous crap like that.
Fortunately, many original structures built from redwood lumber still exist, notably the Eureka Inn. The 93,000 sq ft (8,600 m2) hotel, which fully occupies a city block, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Also our family vacation house in Eureka survived 3 years of a is leaking roof, while it was in probate before coming to us, only because it was framed entirely out of rot resistant old growth redwood in the 1950's. We saved and renovated the original structure even though there ferns growing out of the carpeting in the back bedroom when we got it!
I first moved up there in the seventies as a kid and I love the North Coast my entire life..
I've seen the devastation and how the land turned into different growth like weird pygmy forests and yes a lot of it has come back and no we didn't need to mow all this down to build America.. so either you're just some negative naysayer that wants to call everybody cry babies or maybe you just have never seen it up there. sorry, I just reviewed all the comments and there's a handful of people that got their head in their ass
Same with the great White Pines in Michigan--rebuilt Chicago, but only 155 acres left.
I am from nor-cal I always become very sad everytime I see these photos" .I'm not a tree hugger I am a product of that industry " I have never taken pleasure in having to cut them😢.
MONEY AND GREED
My first camping trip as a child in the early 1950’s, was to Jedidiah Smith state park. It was an overwhelming experience. I will always treasure those memories. In about 1990 I went back to the park, this time in a RV. The park looked pretty much the same. I was able to find the very campsite we had used on that first trip. The Redwoods are majestic and spiritual in nature. I really encourage anyone who can, experience them. Great video!
It's just disgusting to me that these rare trees were cut down without the foresight of what the pillage of these Forrests would do. Greed destroys all.
The trees protected the land and now it's susceptible to erosion..
I'm sure the dick-measuring for the loggers consisted of who had cut down the biggest, oldest tree. Which inevitably led to the biggest, oldest trees getting the axe first. So, the ones we see today aren't the biggest or the oldest of what was there, yet they're still amazing.
We only seem to want to save something after we’ve already destroyed it.
Joni Mitchell couldn’t have said it better.
We still have Redwoods ya know.🤔
I worked all through the area and man those are some amazing forests up there I now live in Stockton but I want to head back the coast
For a builder or wood worker tradesman, redwood is a wonderful wood to work with.
Some of these trees could be older than Islam and Christianity 😮
Gold was discovered in California in 1848, not 1850, which started the Gold Rush of 1849. This is why many of those gold miners referred to themselves as "49ers". And then the football team was named after them.
Many gold discoveries took place in California in the mid to late nineteenth century...Peru Creek 1842, Bodie 1859. I’m sure he knows about James Marshall discovering gold at Sutters Mill in 1848. Gold was being mined all over Northern California thru the 1850’s.
@@paleobuzz Placerita Canyon, also 1842.
I rolling started my family's geo tracker while driving through the chandler tree at age 8
it was great
I'd like to nominate Ryan for one of the best segues in TH-cam history. Making the sponsor spiel entertaining is an art.
I remember going to the Sequoia National Park many times growing up. I bought a seedling at the giftshop and planted it in my backyard. It didn't make it, lol. Good memories.
I am in Kaweah now.
Been there once during my Air Force days, 1970s. I "was chosen to drive a deuce and half though the forest and along the coast line from Travis AFB up to Crescent City, OR. I was able to drive through the tree. We went to many of the mountain tops to calibrate radar equipment for the Over the Horizon detection system. A nice 30 day trip.
It just bugs me
With how we just cleared redwoods out to nearly erasing redwoods from the world. I’d love to try and re grow our redwood forests.
California still has hundreds of miles of Redwoods and they are protected by the state.
I once drove my 2004 Chevy Suburban through the tree! I had to fold the mirrors in but it just barely fit 🤣😎
First one Model T I TINK..
People drove Pierce Arrows and Locomobiles through the same trees.
Much larger than a 'Burb'.
18:45 I've been next to this tree. It is near Santa Cruz and the old logging line, the Roaring Camp RR.
I once lived within a few hundred yards of Roaring Camp.
In 1995 I flew over much of the clear cut forest area from North of Clearlake Calif. to Eureka Calif. in a private plane. The clearcut areas I could see from our route were all planted forest, now, of small trees. Looking like miles of choose and cut Christmas tree farms. In another 100 to 200 years the area will look like a real forest. Unknown to me if they planted Redwood trees, Fir trees, or Pine trees.
Been living in the redwood for 30yrs only part I like about cali
As a woodworker I love this kind of history. Love you videos 👍
Facts that most don't know about Redwood trees.
1. They are not the dominant species in the forest. Fires are necessary to prevent them from being choked out by other trees.
2. When the redwoods are cut down the roots make daughter trees. If you fly over the northern California coastal area you'll see miles and miles of redwood forests from these second growth trees.
Wow that's awesome and crazy
I’ve lived in Eureka my whole life…
The Save the Redwoods League didn’t do anything!
They continued to cut down everything locally up until 1945.
Now you must drive 45 minutes to find a pristine grove.
I always wanted to know about what those ppl thought of but I am glad they do
20 years from now: " the freshwater lakes of north america ; Its history!"
Great overview. There are some really important points that are often left out. We are saddened by the loss of incredible trees but there is more to the story.
Coastal redwoods are still harvested today and each area is logged on a rotation every 50-75 years. The second and third growth trees sprout directly off the stumps of previously logged trees and grow extremely rapidly. Logging provides great lumber for certain applications and it is a highly renewable resource when done correctly. Everyone utilizes lumber.
Coastal Redwoods and Giant Sequoias are related but are very different. Both trees have soft wood. Coastal redwoods make sturdy enough lumber for certain things (wood fences, decks, flooring) and It is not great for framing buildings. Giant Sequoia lumber from the Sierra Nevada was all but useless. It is weak and extremely brittle. I dont understand why they cut so many of them before giving up especially when Douglas Fir is so common, much easier to process and produces much stronger boards.
Im often puzzled as to why logging companies took so many of the large old growth Redwood and Doug firs when cutting a greater number of smaller trees is likely more efficient. It needs to be said that they did leave many of the largest and oldest trees even before they became protected.
Another notable misconception. Redwoods and Sequoias aren't even close to the oldest trees on earth. They just tend to grow extremely fast. While the largest Sequoias are 1500-2000 years old a Bristlecone Pine can leave to be 13,000 or more.
I’m sure that sending AT-ST’s and AT-AT’s in to destroy Sasquatch nests didn’t help. That, and cutting down trees to make paths for Speeder-Bikes.
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Would have been nice if the native people could have kept the land. It would be a beautiful site to see today.
that's like saying you wish we all still lived in the stone age. THEY had their way of life ended just like the Romans invaded Northern Europe and civilized the Barbarians. It's the march of civilization and it can't be stopped until it collapses who know when 😮
Most of our trips from Washington to So. California are down the coast road, 101. We always stop several times going through the Redwoods, it’s just awe inspiring.
The Native Americans were here for thousands of years and kept there land pristine. The settlers destroyed it in less then 50 years
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Triggered
Cause they wont smart enough to do it.
You also forgot that they killed the mammoth and several other species on the continent
The Native Americans were humans.
Though not as destructive as their European replacements, they did not keep _their_ land "pristine".
Where the Native Americans saw sustenance. The europeans only saw industry.
Nice job on this (from a 5th generation Humboldter). One thing, though - I realize that you had a lot to cover, but please give credit to the women of Humboldt, who were the initial driving force behind the Save the Redwoods League. Without them, we'd have even fewer redwoods left. These trees are precious - walking in a redwood forest teaches us what a man-made cathedral is trying to accomplish.
Nice segway into your sponsors spot 👍
So sad. Those beautiful trees could probably have helped California's terrain from erosion during heavy rains.
They still have old grown forest tress on Vancouver Island you can drive through but they've never cut a hole through one.
What happened to all this Redwood that was cut down to build homes that didn't require any type of permit to build because of how flame resistant the wood is (Or was?)? How badly has the Redwood in those homes deteriorated because it was taken from a live organism? Is that wood still extremely fire resistant now, almost 200 years later, or has a good portion of that resistance waned now that the wood used it construction has been dead for around 175 years, or has it even changed at all?
Redwood retains its fire / insect resistance.
I actually can imagine them going with the rivers of gold and trees taller than you've ever seen just ready to be shaped into a town, as romantic. But it's all about how you word it, as losing 95% of Natural Beauty like that so fast is simply sad, no matter how you look at it
Where forests are cut down, deserts follow.
No, the forest eventually grows back. I live in Northern California and there are no deserts up here.
Still plenty of Redwoods here…
This virtue signaling that is so common often exposes what you don’t know…
Point me to the next gold rush and I won’t prospect I’ll set up shop to sell picks and shovels. That’s where the gold rush makes a man wealthy. It’s like the modern day lottery system…
Levi Strauss got the message.
Sequoia are the largest trees. They are in California.
That are redwoods
Coastal redwood and giant sequoia are different species. Both are often just called redwood. The video is mostly about the coastal redwoods, but occasonially he mixes in pictures and facts from the giant sequoias. The giant sequoias do not grow on the coast but farther inland in the Sierra Nevada. Coastal redwood and giant sequoia are similar in potential maximum height and age, but giant sequoias are much more massive, hence they are not necessarily the tallest, but definitely the largest trees.
The most massive is the General Sherman, a _Sequoia Giganteum_ at the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, the tallest is the Hyperion, a somewhat recently discovered (2006) _Sequoia Sempervirens_ of Redwood National Park (exact location undisclosed). The same park houses the second, fourth, and fifth tallest trees.
For many years visitors to the "Redwoods" brought home seedlings and planted them here and there. I live in SW Oregon 9 miles inland from the beach. We have a redwood tree in our yard. There are many of them around our area. They are truly beautiful trees. The wood holds up well and was once very popular as siding. They are brittle, as are most of the cedar family. We have lots of cypress trees around also. The wind is hard on their limbs. Redwood trees are very messy trees, shedding lots of stuff, but they demand a certain reverence. We also have Myrtle trees in my home area. Myrtle grows two places in the entire world. South coast of Oregon and in the Holy Land. Regarding the heading for your video: there is no apostrophe required in the "its" in your title. Ah, the apostrophe. Misused by many, understood by a few. Gotta know the difference between possessive and a contraction.
I think it is correct as a contraction. It is History. Possessive? I dunno, could be. I would believe that it’s (contraction) up to the intent of Mr. Socach
I live in Kaweah.
Sequoia Giganteum seedlings are sold at several nearby shops.
I was lucky enough to grow up in a coastal redwood Forrest. There was evidence of this in a absolutely massive stump that they had burned out. The biggest live tree on the property was still a giant. If you put a stethoscope to the bare wood it sounds like a river.
A sad story repeated over and over again. The logging industry always made the claim that there were plenty of trees until there weren't any left. Then they go after the protected trees as well! Redwoods were destroyed as they frequently shattered when felled, for though the lumber is prized for being durable, it's also brittle. People also don't realize that in order to replace a forest you have to plant a hundred seedlings not just one to replace each tree felled.
If you have ever worked with old growth redwood, it is surprisingly harder and less brittle than redwood we get today. The older trees are tight grained and darker in color as well. The redwood we get today is much softer and more of a pink color.
I read a history of west coast lumbering that mentioned that when a redwood fell it sometimes shattered. The industry also wasted a lot of lumber because they chopped rather then sawed, plus they used a lot of the lumber to build bridges and railway infrastructure. Today in California redwood can't be land filled it has to be recycled.@@jaimecosseboom880
@@jaimecosseboom880It's redwood cut down as babies. Doesn't really make that much sense when you could grow them to become unique treasures but who wants to wait 2000 years.
I lived nearby in the Redwoods myself... It was incredible but this documentary was A+. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
way to go California, proud of you 🙄
Just curious, anyone know why areas outside the park aren't reforested with Redwoods? Since the trees prefer slopes I doubt its farmland.
Sad how shortsighted and destructive those men were.
same happend in New Zealand with Kauri Tree.
Wait why aren’t Mexicans mentioned at some point on the story, as before 1850 it was Mexican territory.
The general location of the trees that are the subject of this video are farther north in California than either Spain or Mexico ever really claimed as theirs. Prior to the mid 19th century, Russia was trying to claim the North Coast and even built a fort known as Fort Ross.
officially it was 1848 and the other man's comment, it's completely true
Who cares lol 😂
Probably because the story was about the lumber industry……
Many of the fires that destroyed San Francisco buildings after the earthquakes were lit by their owners simply because their insurance covered fires, but not damage from quakes!
Quite true.
I think my parents house built in 1987 was one of the last to have redwood in the footings of the foundation I remember by about 2000 home depot stopped sell of redwood tears