The redwoods rustle overhead, the Big Sur River gurgles behind, and hiking trails beckon.
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The Highlight Gallery on Main Street features periodic shows of furniture made by disciples of legendary wood worker James Krenov at the nearby College of the Redwoods.
Parker also asked his guests, many of them extremely wealthy entrepreneurs and celebrities, to donate to Save the Redwoods or the California League of Conservation Voters in lieu of giving gifts, according to a program.
Through the years, Brower had a profound impact on America's wildlands by helping to create national parks and seashores in Kings Canyon, the North Cascades, the Redwoods, Great Basin, Alaska, Cape Cod, Fire Island and Point Reyes.
Even under deep forest cover in the California redwoods, the offline navigator managed to get a GPS lock within a few seconds.
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From that commitment sprang an effort to save the great Redwoods of California and the Petrified Forest of Arizona, the great bird rocks of the Aleutian Islands and the Tongass of Alaska.
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"Oil development in the arctic wildlife refuge makes as much sense as chopping down the giant redwoods for firewood, " said Jim Walton of the Wilderness Society.
Surely this must be confirmation that the thawing economy is growing its green shoots into mighty redwoods and that the recession is a thing of the past finalement.
The researchers, who report their findings in a Sept. 19 paper in the journal PLoS ONE, say the site of the Panda pipe was covered with a forest of Metasequoia, similar to today's dawn redwoods, during the early Eocene.
The National AIDS Memorial Grove offers consoling shade, while the stand of old-growth redwoods at Strybing Arboretum is ideal for meditation before a fierce match at the Lawn Bowling Club.
By the Mendocino County line you are surrounded by tan, wide-open cowboy country, which gives way to the gentle green vineyards of Anderson Valley, then to dark corridors of redwoods, with shafts of sunshine piercing the gloom like smoky spotlights.
The home was built, she said, in the 1920s, to give horse-and-buggy travelers between Redwoods and Big Bear a place to spend the night.
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In amongst a forest of redwoods, it overlooks the pristine wilderness of the central coast that so famously inspired Kerouac, Miller and Steinbeck.
Preserving more natural areas, including ancient redwoods in California, and bringing the last remaining sections of the Appalachian Trail under public control.
To engage in a little Schadenfreude, cronyism is also the reason Big Law firms are falling like termite infested redwoods.
The kimberlite eruption that occurred there about 53.3 million years ago opened a hole in the Earth's surface, sucking in some of those redwoods.
Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) can rise more than 35 storeys above the ground, reaching heights of up to 380 feet (116m).
But the seeds you're planting when you're young turn into giant redwoods.
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