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Ravaged by wildfire last summer, a state park and all its redwood forests, creatures and trails will undergo a transformation. Big Basin Redwoods will be back after a massive rebuilding project. But what will it look like?
SANTA CRUZ, CA In the annals of California history, no one has ever had to put a broken state park back together. There’s no guidebook, no rules. So now state officials and conservationists are attempting a complex and extraordinary Humpty Dumpty project: The reawakening of Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
Resilient redwoods a beacon of hope
California state park recovering from blaze 8 months ago By MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press
Published: April 25, 2021, 6:09am
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3 Photos Fire burns Aug. 24 in the hollow of an old-growth redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Calif. Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the state s oldest park, which was almost entirely ablaze, is doing what nature does best: recovering. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) Photo Gallery
BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, Calif. Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state’s oldest park which was almost entirely ablaze is doing what nature does best: recovering.
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Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state’s oldest park which was almost entirely ablaze is doing what nature does best: recovering.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is closed, but during a backcountry guided tour earlier this week, clusters of chartreuse shoots were budding on blackened redwood branches and trunks. Bright yellow bush poppies, white violets and star lilies dotted the scorched landscape. Hillsides of purple California lilac shrubs were fixing nitrogen in the soil. And new Knobcone pine trees, which need temperatures above 350 degrees to pop open their cones and drop their seeds, were sprouting.