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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I don't know what this means. i know there are fruit trees by you but did they cut down all the redwoods?
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No. His answer, "Palo Alto Hills," was an elaborate SIJOTD requiring proficiency in Spanish. However, in the interest of amusing and delighting Spanky with continuing on-topic banter:
There were natural groves of
sequoia sempervirens on the eastern side of Skyline Boulevard (Highway 35) once upon a time. The forest lands of the bay-side Peninsula were logged extensively (hence, "Redwood City" and "Page Mill Road") but the accessible groves were exhausted by 1870. Redwood production, which was never highly profitable during this period, moved to the Pacific Northwest. The operations that were east of Skyline were mostly north of Spanky in Woodside, Portola Valley, and Searsville (never very large and now quite small, as it is underneath Searsville Lake). The existing redwoods in the region are now preserved at Big Basin SP, Portola Redwoods SP, and Pescadero Creek Park -- all west of Skyline.
