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vanta.com. So this is something I've been very excited to talk about. Last week, I had the chance

to go up to the far northern region of California with the Redwood Forest Foundation. And they

invited me and a number of other individuals representing organizations,

activist groups, tech and all that to see firsthand how they are restoring and attempting

to sustainably manage a 50,000 acre redwood forest. It was absolutely massive stretching

for mountains and mountains and mountains. Well, I did have mountains and mountains and mountains,

but miles and miles along the coast.

And what I loved about it was this, this wasn't abstract. This was on the ground work being done by

real individuals who have a passion and love for the environment and want to see this very unique

aspect of it that we have here in California managed in a better way than it

has historically been. This entire region was logged, it was mistreated, invasive and parasitic

species, both animals and plants were allowed to come in. It was just, it was exploited,

that's all it was. But it doesn't have to stay that way. And so they're trying to do it in a very different way.

We're to put up some images that I and others took on the trip, just so you can see sort of what it looked like, just for scale.

I mean, these trees are absolutely massive.

This is in an old growth area.

A lot of their territory is not old growth because it was logged almost out of existence.

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