B.S.
All these hyperbolic claims about how few old-growth redwoods are left are based on the numbers of old-growth redwoods left on private property.
Huge amounts of old-growth redwoods are preserved in Redwood National Park. Of course there are few old-growth redwoods left in private hands, because the government has taken most of them.
People used to be able to earn a decent living in Humboldt County, but now all that's left are low-paying tourism jobs and high-paying government jobs.
Redwood National Park is a tiny 110,000 acre dot of land that holds about half of the remaining coastal redwoods.
We used to have about 2,000,000 acres of coastal redwoods back when California was founded. Big trees are long gone.
Redwood timber is just too fine a quality of wood to be building typical overpriced cheap-shit California homes and patio decks with and making fancy garden mulch out of.
Californians can get by with having homes made of glue, sawdust, more glue, chalk, stucco, and white pine lumber. Only Al Gore would build a redwood home thousands of miles away from the nearest redwood forest.