Any thoughts?
Plant poplar trees dam the rivers and build a paper mill.
The only reason Big Basin had any old growth Redwoods is that it is in a big basin and it was too much effort to get in there and haul the things out. Everywhere else in the area (like up along Skyline drive) was farmed to the ground. The redwoods regrowth from that is now 100+ years old and getting pretty big again.
“Any thoughts?”
None except that 18,000 acres is equivalent to a square 5.3 miles on each side.