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Photos taken in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, about 1 mile from headquarters, in April 2021, left, and Nov. 15, 2023, show the dramatic recovery from the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire.
Crews clear the burned wreckage from the headquarters building at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on June 16, 2021. The CZU Lightning Fire in August 2020 burned 97% of the land in California’s ...
After years of rehabilitation, Big Basin Redwoods State Park has reopened eight trail segments that had been devastated by the CZU Lightning Complex fire, which burned about 97 percent of the park … ...
The park, damaged by the August 2020 fire and further battered by this winter’s storms, now has reopened trails that include the Redwood Loop Trail, Skyline to the Sea Trail, Dool Trail, Meteor ...
One year after a massive wildfire devastated California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, the cleanup is well underway. In recent weeks, construction workers in hard hats have finished ...
Big Basin’s old-growth redwood forest is recovering from the CZU Lightning Complex fire, which burned for 37 days starting in August 2020, and decimated 18,000 acres inside the park boundary.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County will partially reopen to the public on July 22 for the first time since a wildfire tore through its towering ancient groves nearly two years ago.
About 97% of the park was burned in 2020. LOS ANGELES — Nearly two years after a massive wildfire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, parts of the park are ...
When Big Basin opened in 1902 it marked the genesis of redwood conservation. The park now receives about 250,000 visitors a year from around the world, and millions have walked the Redwood Trail.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park will reopen with limited public access on July 22, almost two years after the CZU Fire unleashed extensive damage. ... but the Redwood Loop Trail, ...