Beranek Redwoods Series: Navarro Redwoods

Jerry Beranek brings you Navarro Redwoods: From the Ashes of Clear-cut Logging.  It features views and opinion from an old logger. 

This superlative redwood park is nestled along the coast of northern California in Mendocino County, between the towns of Point Arena and Ft. Bragg.

Navarro is a second-growth redwood park.  In the 1860s Navarro Redwoods was clear-cut logged and burned–reduced to a barren of charred stumps and ash, and today there are redwoods on these river-flats running 5 to 7 foot in diameter by 250 feet tall. Some nearing 300! So goes the sub-title, “From the Ashes of Clear-cut Logging.”

Contrary to the arguments forest activists raise over logging Navarro Redwoods is living proof that a forest logged is never destroyed or lost forever.

In this book Jerry presents the issues being raised over managed forests, and he uses Navarro Redwoods as a proxy to support his views. He majored in plant sciences and worked in the woods for over 40 years. So he is qualified to tell you. Hence the lower sub-title, “Views and Opinion from an Old Logger.” That’s Jerry.

Under the canopy of the trees in this park you’ll find every living thing that has been found in an old-growth redwood forest. Navarro may be young but it is complete. It has reached a climax condition in 160 years. Incredibly fast! Already some places in this park you can’t tell from an old-growth forest. Navarro is superlative.