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The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of several state and national parks located in the United States, along the coast of northern California.
Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968) and California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks (dating from the 1920s), the combined RNSP contain 139,000 acres (560xc2xa0km2),[1] and feature old-growth temperate rainforests.
Located within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, the four parks, together, protect 45xc2xa0percent of all remaining coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) old-growth forests, totaling at least 38,982 acres (157.75xc2xa0km2).
In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres (8,100xc2xa0km2) of the California coast.
The enormous redwoods attracted timber harvesters to support the gold rush in more southern regions of California and the increased population from booming development in San Francisco and other places on the West Coast.
By the 1920s the work of the Save the Redwoods League, founded in 1918 to preserve remaining old-growth redwoods, resulted in the establishment of Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks among others.
[3] In recognition of the rare ecosystem and cultural history found in the parks, the United Nations designated them a World Heritage Site on September 5, 1980 and part of the California Coast Ranges International Biosphere Reserve on June 30, 1983.
Previous to Jedediah Smith in 1828, no other explorer of European descent is known to have thoroughly investigated the inland region away from the immediate coast.
This brought miners into the area and many stayed on at the coast after failing to strike it rich.
Initially, over 2,000,000 acres (8,100xc2xa0km2) of the California and southwestern coast of Oregon were old-growth redwood forest, but by 1910, extensive logging led conservationists and concerned citizens to begin seeking ways to preserve the remaining trees, which they saw being logged at an alarming rate.
The coast redwood is the tallest tree species on Earth
As California created a state park system, beginning in 1927, three of the preserved redwood areas became Prairie Creek Redwoods, Del Norte Coast Redwoods, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks.
[18] The park is part of a much larger region designated the California Coast Ranges International Biosphere Reserve on June 30, 1983.
[19] The California Coast Ranges biosphere is overseen by the University of California Natural Reserve System.
Redwood National and State Parks consists of Redwood National Park, directly managed by the U.S. Government's National Park Service (NPS) and Jedediah Smith, Del Norte Coast and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks overseen by the California Department of Parks and Recreation (CDPR).
[24] Redwoods have existed along the coast of northern California for at least 20xc2xa0million years and are related to tree species that existed 160xc2xa0million years ago.
The native range of coast redwood is from the northern California coast north to the southern Oregon Coast.
Coast redwoods are the tallest trees on Earth; as of September 2006, the tallest tree in the park was Hyperion at 379.1 feet (115.5xc2xa0m), followed by Helios and Icarus which were 376.3 feet (114.7xc2xa0m) and 371.2 feet (113.1xc2xa0m) respectively.
Mature Coast redwoods live an average of 500xe2x80x93700xc2xa0years and a few are documented to be 2,000xc2xa0years old, making them some of the longest-living organisms on earth.
Another large tree commonly found in the forest is the coast Douglas-fir, which has been measured at heights of over 300 feet (91xc2xa0m).
Sitka spruce are plentiful along the coast and are better adapted to salty air than other species.
Along the coastline, California sea lions, Steller sea lions and harbor seals live near the shore and on seastacks, rocky outcroppings forming small islands just off the coast.
Brown pelicans and double-crested cormorants are mainly found on cliffs along the coast and on seastacks, while sandpipers and gulls inhabit the seacoast and inland areas.
Both coastline and the Coast Ranges can be found within park boundaries.
Coastal temperatures generally range between 40 and 60xc2xa0degrees Fahrenheit (4xe2x80x9315xc2xa0xc2xb0C) all year round, while further from the coast summers are hotter and drier, and winters are colder.
[40] Redwoods mostly grow a mile or two (1.5xe2x80x933xc2xa0km) from the coast, and never more than 50 miles (80xc2xa0km) from it.
These are at Mill Creek campground in Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park and Jedediah Smith campground in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, which together have 251 campsites; the Elk Prairie campground in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park which has 75; and the Gold Bluffs Beach campground which has 25 campsites.
The parksxe2x80x99 primary feature is the coastal redwood forest, a surviving remnant of the group of trees that has existed for 160 million years and was once found throughout many of the moist temperate regions of the world, but is now confined to the wet regions of the west coast of North America.
It is covered with a magnificent forest of Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens), the tallest living things and among the most impressive trees in the world.
Criterion (ix): Redwood National and State Parks preserve the largest remaining contiguous ancient coast redwood forest in the world in their original forest and streamside settings.
The 16,442 hectares of old growth redwood forest in Redwood National and State Parks preserves some of the largest remaining contiguous ancient coast redwood forest in the world.
However, at the time of inscription, the property also included approximately 15,400 hectares which had been intensively logged for coast redwoods and other old growth forest species.
The ocean waters off the coast of the property are additionally designated as the Redwood National Park Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS) and are protected from waste discharges by regulations of the State Water Resources Control Board.
Redwood National Park was established by the U.S. Congress in 1968 to provide permanent protection of old growth redwood forests and associated ecosystems, including lands within three state parks established by the California Legislature in the 1920s (Prairie Creek Redwoods, Del Norte Coast Redwoods, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods).