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Euro-Americans swept westward in the 1800s
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Timber harvesting quickly became the top manufacturing industry in the west.
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gold was discovered in northwestern California in 1850. the population started to grow quickly, more lumber was needed
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Large-scale logging was soon underway and the once immense stands of redwoods began to disappear by the close of the 19th century.
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"By the 1910s, some concerned citizens began to clamor for the preservation of the dwindling stands of redwoods. The Save-the-Redwoods League was born out of this earnest group, and eventually the League succeeded in helping to establish the redwood preserves of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park." nps.org stated
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the loggers made use of rapidly improving technology in the 20th century that allowed more trees to be harvested in less time
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"But still logging continued in those parts of the forests that were privately owned, accelerated by WW II and the economic boom of the 1950s. By the 1960s, logging had consumed nearly 90 percent of all the original redwoods." wrote by nps.org
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It wasn’t until 1968 that Redwood National Park was established, which secured some of the few remaining stands of uncut redwoods. In 1978, Congress added more land that included logged-over portions of Redwood Creek.
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In 1978, Congress added more land that included logged-over portions of Redwood Creek.
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Today, these lands are undergoing large-scale restoration by the parks' resource managers.
