Today I went to the Avenue of the Giants, the road which
goes through the Redwood State Park.
My first stop was at the Drury – Chaney Grove, where I
walked part of the trail.
This unusual bench had a plaque with the name James
Phillips von Humboldt. I forgot to asked the ranger at the Visitor Center
whether this person claims to be a relative of Baron Friedrich Heinrich
Alexander von Humboldt.
The greatest accumulation of biomass ever recorded is in
the coast redwood forest in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
There are a lot of giant decaying redwood trees.
This tree did not fall over, it was cut down. The holes
in the stump are for the brackets to hold the scaffolding where the lumberman
stood while working the hand saw.
I asked the ranger why the tree was cut about ten feet
above ground. The tree has a bigger diameter towards the floor and it would
take more time cutting it there. Now with modern machinery it would not matter,
but the big trees are now protected. Most of them are in State and National
Parks.
This tree fell on a stump and broke in half.
The Eel River finally has water again.
Dyerville was swept away by a flood. All what is left is
the railroad bridge.
This tree was over thousand years old. The little signs
tell what happened in history at certain ages of the tree.
At the Visitor Center is the Charles Kellog Travel Log.
It was carved out of a giant log.
Kellog traveled across the United States several times to
promote saving the redwood trees.
Inside the Visitor Center is a theater and a small museum
displaying tools used by the lumbermen.
It was warm on the Avenue of the Giants. The temperature
was 85 degrees F. In Eureka it was 20 degrees cooler.
No comments:
Post a Comment