League members on a 2021 Redwood Hike Series outing to the Grove of Titans, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Photo by Save the Redwoods League.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
A new tactile map of the Grove of Titans was designed for tactile learners and visitors with low or no vision. Photo by Max Forster.
Interpretive panels at the Grove of Titans combined conservation messaging with Tolowa culture and tactile sculptures. Photo by Max Forster.
Interpretation at the Grove of Titans includes sculptures for tactile learners and people with blindness or low vision. Photo by Max Forster.
Project partners incorporated the Tolowa language, basket pattern, and cultural stories on interpretation throughout Grove of Titans area. Front: Loren Me'-lash-ne Bommelyn, Tolowa Dee-ni' linguist and tribal historian, tradition bearer, teacher, Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Smith River, California; back, Sam Hodder, League president and CEO.
A sculpture of a Humboldt marten is one of several tactile elements at the Grove of Titans designed for the visually impaired and those who learn better through touch. Signage includes the marten’s name in the Tolowa language. Photo by Max Forster.
Steve Mietz, in his National Park Service days, speaking at the opening of the Grove of Titans trail in Redwood National and State Parks. Photo by Max Forster.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Trail building crews working on the new raised walkway. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans Trail Reconstruction Project, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans, August 2021. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Denuded understory and exposed roots of a coast redwood. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Brett Silver, California State Parks Acting Sector Superintendent, points to the location that forest vegetation should cover. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Visitors are asked to walk on designated trails in order to prevent the damage caused by "social" trails. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
The League is restoring Grove of Titans, where social trails have impacted the trees' roots, in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
The Grove of Titans, home to some of the world's largest coast redwoods, evokes the primeval splendor of an old-growth forest. Photo by Will Goldenberg.
In 2012, lush vegetation covered the Grove of Titans before visitors trampled the forest floor. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Visitors who ventured off of the park’s official trails have created this large patch of compacted bare soil. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Grove of Titans in 2015, prior to heavy trampling and denuding of understory vegetation. Photo by Max Forster, @maxforsterphotography.
Trail Damage, 2012
Trail Reconstruction, 2021
Grove of Titans B-Roll
