#prairie creek redwoods

[jamesadamtaylor]

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Spring in the Redwoods can be fantastically green. Print Shop:

[tpeakphotos]

Nature photography often involves a great deal of planning and advance research to find the right conditions, etc to capture a good image. Sometimes all the planning in the world still isn’t enough. That said, any photographer who tells you they’ve never had a certain degree of just dumb luck is a far better photographer than yours truly or pulling your leg. In this instance I have to own up to some definite dumb luck. My wife and I went to Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park hoping to see some Elk bulls sparing in the meadow there. However, my hopes weren’t high as it was raining and I’d heard that the powers-that-be in the park were scheduled to burn the meadow as they do every few years. This turned out to be true as the meadow was still smoking when we got there. Add in the very rainy conditions and we saw no elk to photograph. What I did not expect was how many glorious patches of fall color there would be. I took a short hike and came away with a couple pretty images.

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[mtbearded1]

My 2024 Calendar featuring 12 photos taken in the various sections of Redwood National Park.

[morningcallsphotography]

Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway Orick, CA NY -> CA (and back), 2021

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[eopederson]

Early autumn in the redwoods, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, 2024.

[wandering-jana]

Banana slug!

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California. Oct. 2020

[elinerlina2]

Redwoods in Northern California

[valhikes]

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, part of Redwood National and State Parks, California

I made it out to the old growth redwoods! I could even feel those big trees getting ever bigger! And there was even a rhododendron remaining along the Rhododendron Trail this late in the season.

[thorsenmark]

My Time for a Getaway in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the east while taking in views of nearby coast redwoods and an early growth forest while walking the Prairie Creek Trail in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

[twohalves1whole]

[itseyentait]

I don't have prints for this yet, but here's a design I made for a Fern Canyon postcard. It's an amazing place to visit.

[reasonsforhope]

"The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.

Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.

Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.

“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.

Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.

Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.

It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.

“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

[fraryguitar]

Drury Scenic Highway at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

[travelwithz]

We hiked at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park hoping to see elk, but didn’t. We saw a lot of other wonderful wildlife instead.

[morningcallsphotography]

Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway Orick, CA NY -> CA (and back), 2021

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[sherrylephotography]

The top picture is a cow roosevelt elk

I noticed that the cows seemed to graze in a group and the bulls watched them from a distance away. Lots of people didn't seem threatened by the cows but I read that if they have there calves near them they may go after you to protect their calf

The bottom picture is a bull roosevelt elks.

My photography @sherrylephotography taken 9/23 posted 10/23

Prairie Creek State Redwood Park