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The Redwood National and State Parks are temperate rainforests located along the coast of Northern Carolina, USA. The RNSP contain 133,000 acres and is located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. The park consists of 4 different parks; Redwood National Park, California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks. The four parks protect 45% of the remaining redwood trees. The redwood trees are the tallest and the most massive trees in the world. The RNSP protect 38,982 acres of old-growth forest, contributing to environmental sustainability. Due to these temperate rainforests found in the RNSP, several animals such as the spotted owl, the marbled murrelet, the bald eagle, black bears, cougars, and…

The Redwood Network In the towering redwood tree lived four friends,Todo the squirrel, Jullien the owl, Kim the koala, and the infamous bee named Pete. The four just graduated from redwood high school and were now ready to start their lives. Todo and Jullien planned on going to work with Jullien's dad at the leaf transportation company. Meanwhile Kim and Pete got accepted to Maple University starting in the fall. The four of them promised each other they would spend the whole summer making…

Leadership Program. As an organization, The Redwood is strategically creating partnerships with organizations that work with a diverse group of women. One of the partnerships we have developed is with Native Women’s Resource Centre to recruit women to become participants and develop the leadership skills to support their communities. Four women were interviewed and recruited for the program. Olivia, one of our current participants, had heard about the WOTM program while living at The Redwood.…

According to the dictionary an environmentalist is defined as “a person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.” There are dozens of great environmentalists that have changed the world today. One that stuck out in particular was Julia Hill. Julia Hill was a woman who at the age of 22 affected the Redwood forest in a spectacular way. Julia was born in Mount Vernon, Missouri on February 18th, 1974. She spent the first ten years of her life playing outside of her…

I chose my states location based off a place I think has a lot of natural beauty and also a lot of history. I broke down the questions given to me and also added in some of my own, I answered them all individually to try and illustrate the full functionality of my conceptual state and its capitol. To give a general idea of where my state is located, it is on the west coast and is the northern part of California and also includes the southern portion of Oregon. I have included a map with the…

In Jeanne Althouse’s short story “The Redwood Grove” the main character is Will. Who is a middle aged man and has recently been fired from his job at the bank. Will is in a dilemma between reality and fantasy. Contently battling with his emotions and guilt. Will is battling his personal conflict with having to deal with being fired from his job along with his boyfriend Jack being the cause for losing his job. Will was in a relationship with another employee at the bank he worked at by the name…

Throughout the compromises history, Drexel Burnham Lambert helped Charles Hurwitz take over Pacific Lumber for $900 million. In “The Fight over the Redwoods,” the author states, “Hurwitz had United Savings purchase huge amounts of risky bonds from Drexel. [Also, as a result of savings and loans failing], taxpayers were stuck with a bill for $1.6 billion dollars.” From this compromise the company gets money, and the trees don’t get cut down.The compromise itself started in 1999 between Charles…

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.…

One hot summer day in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, I lay outside with my Aunt Tracy’s step daughter Janessa, and cousin Jordyn who was three. Jordyn is splashing around in the freezing cold baby pool, laughing every time she would splash one of us. Of course, when we check the time it is around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Janessa and I had been talking about hanging out with one of her friends from the area, so we texted Jillian to see what was going on tonight. The Redwood Valley fair was going on…

The Silent Voices of People from the Endangered Redwood Forests According to Woody Harrelson’s letter to the editor of the San Francisco Examiner, there was a protest on September 14, 1997, of people cutting down many redwood trees that occurred in Northern California. Thousands of people came together during this time to stop the horrible destruction. Charles Hurwitz was the main person who was involved in the logging of the trees and he was the chief executive in charge at the Pacific Lumber…