Big Basin Redwood Forest: California's Oldest State Park - Hardcover

by Traci Bliss (Author), Martin Rizzo-Martinez (Foreword by), Mark G. Hylkema (Foreword by)

The epic saga of Big Basin began in the late 1800s, when the surrounding communities saw their once inexhaustible redwood forests vanishing. Expanding railways demanded timber as they crisscrossed the nation, but the more redwoods that fell to the woodman's axe, the greater the effects on the local climate. California's groundbreaking environmen...