Redwood National Park is in California. Redwood
was made in 1968. Redwood National Park is home to a lot of animals
because of its famous trees. The Redwood is famous because they're
so big. In fact, it's the tallest plant in the world! It also
has other humongous trees. If they hadn't made the arches in Redwood
National Park, you couldn't travel through the Redwood trees because of
the very narrow space. But, you can still drive through them!!!
The tallest redwood tree was 367.8 feet tall. Redwood
trees are th eoldest thing to live on earth. A specimen was 2,200
years old. The tallest redwood is 600 years old. The most popular
trees that grow in Redwood National Park are the Coast Redwood, and the
Giant Sequoia. A Giant Sequoia can wiegh up to 2.7 million pounds.
What we saved:
Redwood National Park has 110,232.4 acres of beautiful
land with almost every type of Sequoia!!! California used to have
only 4.4% of Redwoods, but that was in national parks.
The first people to settle in Redwood National Park:
The Yurok people had a traditional life. They hunted
for eels, acorns, bears, and deer meat. They canoed up Klamath
river. They also had dances. The Coast Redwood trees were used
as canoes.
History:
Logging was an important part of the history. Logging
came to the Pacific coast region in 1859. They used a machine called
the steam donkey!
The gray whale comes to the shore of Redwood National
Park. Some have been seen with some hairs on their head.
There is food on the Pacific coast. Marbled marrelet
is a bird that lives throughout Alaska to central California. They
make their nest in a canopy over ancient forests including some in Redwood
National Park. The only way too travel through the park is by train.
It zips around until you get deep in the forest where you can explore.
Elliott in our class went there.
Redwoods grow throughout central California to southern
Oregon. Like the Everglades, Redwood National Park has an oceanside.
It has a lot of moss and rocks. Seagulls fly around the shore.
There are more types of trees than the Giant Sequoia,
and the Coast Redwood: the Big Leaf Maple, California Bay, Rhodadendron,
and the Hockley Berry. There are a lot of schools in Redwood National
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