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March 27, 2003
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Redwood National Park, California
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1983
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James P. Blair
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"Ancient redwoods 1,500 years old tower more than 250 feet [76 meters] in Lady Bird Johnson Grove, part of California's Redwood National Park. Morning fog regularly envelops the trees, providing them with life-sustaining moisture, especially during dry summer months. Congress established the park in 1968, after a study funded by the National Geographic Society revealed that logging had destroyed all but 15 percent of the original two-million-acre [809,400 hectare] forest. Without federal protection, redwoods such as these looming above a visitor probably would not exist today."
—Text and photograph from the National Geographic book Our Threatened Inheritance, 1984
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