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Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is a state park, located in Humboldt County, California, near the town of Orick and 50 miles (80 km) north of Eureka. The 14,000-acre (57 km 2 ) park is a coastal sanctuary for old-growth Coast Redwood trees.
Arborist M.D. Vaden in front of the coast redwood Iluvatar, a tree of the Atlas Grove. Atlas Grove is a grove of Coast redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens) within Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, in Humboldt County, northern California. It contains the third largest known Coast redwood, Iluvatar.
In Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Fern Canyon is a well-known ravine 50 feet (15 m) deep, [98] with walls completely covered in ferns—California maidenhair, deer fern, California polypody, licorice fern, and western swordfern. [101] The ancestors of some of these ferns reach back 325 million years. [102]
Like most, I entered the park's main day-use area by way of State Routes 9 and 236 near Boulder Creek. The Redwood Loop Trail is a flat route that includes some of the park's biggest and oldest trees.
Prairie Creek is the Redwood Creek tributary drainage basin including the inland portion of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.Prairie Creek drains southerly through a Plio-Pleistocene non-marine sedimentary and metasedimentary formation to a confluence with Redwood Creek approximately one mile upstream of Orick, California.
Fern Canyon, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California Panorama of Fern Canyon. Fern Canyon is a canyon in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Humboldt County, California, western United States. The park is managed in cooperation with other nearby redwoods state parks and Redwood National Park. It is named for the ferns growing on the ...
Iluvatar is a redwood tree in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California that has been confirmed to be at least 20.5 feet (6.2 m) in diameter at breast height, and 320 feet (98 m) in height. Measured by botanist Stephen C. Sillett, it is the world's third-largest coast redwood, the largest being Lost Monarch. [1]
Redwoods Rising also works with local Native American tribes. [1] [2] Redwoods Rising was founded in April 2018 at an event in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Redwood National and State Parks as 120,000 acres (49,000 ha) of public lands, 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) of this land were commercially logged in the past. [3]