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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Wrong species, asshole. All of the famous drive-thrus are sempervirens. The two I've done are in Leggett and Myers Flat. If you went to Muir Woods, you were off by about three and a half hours.
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- "Why not cut a new tunnel tree?" many visitors suggest, when they discover that the Wawona Tree can no longer be driven through.
Times change, however, and actions proper for one generation may not fit the needs and goals of a succeeding generation. Our expectations of national parks have changed immensely during the past half century. When our national parks were young, cutting tunnels through sequoia trees was a way to popularize the parks and gain support for their protection. In those early days, national parks usually were managed to protect individual features rather than to protect the integrity of the complete environment. Today, we realize that our national parks represent some of the last primeval landscapes in America, and our goal in the parks is to allow nature to run its course with as little interference from man as possible.
it sucks they let Californians be in charge of California. my
current expectations of a National Park is that I can drive through a tree.
