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Blackened trunks. Tall skinny Coast Redwoods, sprouting from the trunk having lost their big branches: they look like bottle brushes. Most striking: the flourishing understory, so glad to get sunlight and reduced competition. We finally make it to Big Basin after the apocalyptic CZU Fire in September 2020, to find the forest coping, regrowing, in the early stages of recovery. The historic buildings are gone, leaving the scoured forest to rebuild itself.
BONUS: Two views from a mature redwood forest, Humboldt Redwoods State Park in August 2022. The redwood canopy shields direct sunlight; the forest floor is mostly clear, or covered in shade-tolerant ferns. The sudden disappearance of this canopy brings an explosion of opportunistic shrubs in Big Basin.
BONUS: Two views from a mature redwood forest, Humboldt Redwoods State Park in August 2022. The redwood canopy shields direct sunlight; the forest floor is mostly clear, or covered in shade-tolerant ferns. The sudden disappearance of this canopy brings an explosion of opportunistic shrubs in Big Basin.
Dan Quinn