Brianna Chinas 6/ /18
Research Paper ELA 8/9
Redwood State and National Park Redwood National and State Parks is one of the world`s most verdant landscapes. They have the most immense trees on Earth. The parks consist of many protected forests, oak woodlands, beaches, rivers, grasslands, prairies, and nearly 40-miles of coastline.
How did it begin?
Native Americans have lived in the Redwood parks for thousands of years. They grazed and hunted on these lands. Today, the descendants of these people still live on and off the reservations of the Redwood National and State parks. Around 1828 Jedediah Smith was the first European explorer to thoroughly investigate the Redwood parks. Once people discovered gold along the Trinity River, a gold rush commenced in the region in the year 1850. Conflicts with the natives and gold chasers arised leading to mass murder forcing the removal of many natives. Efforts to conserve the parks didn’t begin until 1910.It took the Redwoods several decades before they received a reprieve from logging.In 1968 Redwood National Park got its ultimate establishment by President Lyndon B. Johnson.In 1994 the National Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation decided to together …show more content…
In 1977 certain Redwood National Parks had State Park lands which where still under state jurisdiction. Representative Philip Barton introduced legislation to expand the park. The following year in March, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the addition of forty-eight thousand acres to Redwood National Park. Thirty-nine thousand acres of the addition had already been logged over. Despite this, the change to the Park expanded the protection of the Redwood Creek. Overall, Redwood National and State Parks have had several changes over the course of the
Research Paper ELA 8/9
Redwood State and National Park Redwood National and State Parks is one of the world`s most verdant landscapes. They have the most immense trees on Earth. The parks consist of many protected forests, oak woodlands, beaches, rivers, grasslands, prairies, and nearly 40-miles of coastline.
How did it begin?
Native Americans have lived in the Redwood parks for thousands of years. They grazed and hunted on these lands. Today, the descendants of these people still live on and off the reservations of the Redwood National and State parks. Around 1828 Jedediah Smith was the first European explorer to thoroughly investigate the Redwood parks. Once people discovered gold along the Trinity River, a gold rush commenced in the region in the year 1850. Conflicts with the natives and gold chasers arised leading to mass murder forcing the removal of many natives. Efforts to conserve the parks didn’t begin until 1910.It took the Redwoods several decades before they received a reprieve from logging.In 1968 Redwood National Park got its ultimate establishment by President Lyndon B. Johnson.In 1994 the National Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation decided to together …show more content…
In 1977 certain Redwood National Parks had State Park lands which where still under state jurisdiction. Representative Philip Barton introduced legislation to expand the park. The following year in March, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the addition of forty-eight thousand acres to Redwood National Park. Thirty-nine thousand acres of the addition had already been logged over. Despite this, the change to the Park expanded the protection of the Redwood Creek. Overall, Redwood National and State Parks have had several changes over the course of the