Breakfast Club: January 11, 2020
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On Thursday evening, my head a tangle of anger and anxiety, I grabbed a headlamp and drove up to Redwood Regional Park. The sun set as I ran into the park's dense thickets of forest and it was soon dark but for my headlamp's splotch of florescence. I moved along the trails, the entire park to myself—a single band of light bobbing through the redwood groves.
Redwood Park's namesake redwood trees aren't the oldest in the Bay Area. They'll never attract the crowds or tourism that attend to the old-growth giants of Muir Woods or Big Basin. But I love this park because it's a survivor.
Between 1845 and 1880, every single redwood tree in what is now park property was logged down to the stumps. But the grove grew back. Then, during rebuilding after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the second growth of trees were clearcut again. Today's park is named…
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