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Stupendous redwoods of California.

While there are still some 2,000-year-old redwoods left in California, most of the redwoods we see are much, much younger—about 50-150 years old. That’s equivalent to about age 2-6 in human years! Since California’s Gold Rush (beginning in 1848), about 95% of the local redwood forest—which once stretched across the Santa Cruz Mountains—was logged to build (and rebuild) cities like San Francisco, San Jose and beyond. Coast redwoods can grow 100 feet in their first 50 years, so they quickly look like grown-ups.