[nickcarraway]

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[READINABLUESTATE]

Those old Redwoods have been through hundreds of fires.

[elbook]

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Its why they have such thick bark ...

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I recall hearing several times the naturalist story that there were massive fires up and down the West Coast 400 years ago which burn through much of the forests.

Note - that so many Redwood Trees in those forests are over 400 years old ...

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[secretmtcman]

I have a piece of petrified wood that has a black ring in it.

[Night Hides Not]

Thanks for posting, nick. I was a firefighter at Big Basin the summer of '74. It was the year Cal Forestry moved the FF station back into the park...lots of great memories flooding back.

The previous summer, I was stationed at Saratoga Summit, on Skyline Drive. Couldn't have asked for a better summer job during college.

[SpaceBar]

Once California cedes to Mexico it will all be felled.

[CARTOUCHE]

Thanks Nick. Memories flood back of me and wife to be driving there from Concord on my first leave in 1972. Glad there wasnt greater damage.

[martin_fierro]

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[trebb]

Redwoods need such fires to flourish - they didn’t survive - they were refreshed...