I’ve ridden through the coast Redwoods and seen where old growth Redwoods have been clear felled. This film I found fascinating and painful.

At the point where the forests were on the point of being protected, timber companies were given the green light to recover anything lying on the ground. Teams worked round the clock felling giants with floodlights. Thank goodness a few stands remain.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_YNZn_kaQ&feature=youtu.be[/video]

And the Giant Sequoia’s. Tree’s so big that they literally smashed into pieces when they hit the ground and useless for anything, including fuel.

And yet, the European settlers continued their raping and pillaging of the land and the indigenous First Nations tribes.

Very disappointing.

Yet you can’t ride a bicycle in a Wilderness area, because it’s a ‘mechanical method of transport’, while this sort of vandalism is allowed to go on. 🙄

This is a great book on the Redwoods and of a group of diverse biologists who were the first to climb them.