Logging Ancient Redwoods in Nanning Creek Grove

by Duff

Fri, Nov 25, 2005 3:18AM

captured on digital video: Pacific Lumber cutting down old growth redwoods in Nanning Creek Grove, and the sound of ancient trees crashing to the ground (November 12, 2005)

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Nanning Creek Grove, one mile east of the logging town of Scotia, is the largest unprotected stand of primeval redwood forest in the world. It contains old-growth trees up to 15 feet in diameter standing over 300 ft tall, likely to be thousands of years old. Of the two million acres of original Redwood forests that existed when California gained statehood in 1850, less than three percent remain today.

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