Reminder: Come to Our 90th Anniversary Celebration

Join Save-the-Redwoods League on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, for presentations, cake and refreshments as we thank you for your support. Celebrate the League’s history of outstanding achievements, hear about the plan to broaden redwood conservation efforts, and see how we are moving ahead with renewed enthusiasm to save these world treasures.

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Learn about the League’s establishment, new plans, land acquisitions and research in the Special 90th Anniversary Issue of the 2008 Spring Bulletin (PDF).

Download and Share Redwood Photos

Share and enjoy pieces of history with redwood photos dating from 1918 to the present. Visit Save-the-Redwoods League’s 90th anniversary Web page to download these photos as part of a redwood screen saver and wallpaper for your computer. Send redwood electronic greeting cards, and learn more about the League and the trees.

On the Web page, you also can learn about the League’s establishment, our remarkable accomplishments in protecting more than 180,000 acres with your support, and the work that lies ahead as we expand redwood conservation. Plus, read Favorite Redwood Memories from your fellow members, learn fun facts about redwoods, and trace the League's history in the timeline.

Run through the Redwoods

Run or root for participants in a park that Save-the-Redwoods League created and has helped to protect for the last 90 years. Go to the 9 a.m. Sunday, May 4, 2008, big run through the big trees – the Avenue of the Giants Marathon, Half-Marathon and 10K – sponsored in part by Save-the-Redwoods League. As part of a new effort to encourage younger generations to protect redwoods, the League will give pens and biodegradable water bottles to the 2,000 runners from throughout the world when they converge at California’s Humboldt Redwoods State Park. The park headquarters is on State Route 254, between the towns of Weott and Myers Flat, 45 miles south of Eureka off of Highway 101.

The League created Humboldt Redwoods State Park in 1921, when it acquired its first memorial grove in honor of Colonel Raynal C. Bolling to commemorate the first American Army officer of high rank to fall in World War I. The park has grown to include a diverse ecosystem including the entire Bull Creek watershed and the Rockefeller Forest, the largest remaining old-growth redwood forest in the world. Humboldt’s spectacular Avenue of the Giants Parkway, which winds through magnificent redwoods, also is linked to the League: It was dedicated in 1960 after Save-the-Redwoods worked for 40 years to acquire it.

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Featured Favorite Redwood Memory

The three S's:

1. Smells: damp, but not musty.  Rich, but not overpowering. Clean.
2. Solitude: not loneliness but rather a oneness with nature — awe-inspiring.
3. Sunlight: It arrives in shafts like Zeus’ lightning bolts, but falls gently on me and the floor.

—Ted, member since 2000