We're talking about 8,800 acres right here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, that is part of a 1.6 million acre redwood forest ecosystem going from Big Sur all the way up to the Oregon border, most of which is young recovering second and third growth forest.

95% of it is young recovering second growth forest. And in that latent forest ecosystem is a fire

resilient landscape that we can restore together if we learn from the lessons of

this property what's unusual in this time is the intensity and the crown fires

and these absolutely gigantic catastrophic wildfires that really destroy entire

communities. And so the community should hear about it and they should hear about the value of

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Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizey. Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends.

I'm your host, Karina Belizzi.

And today, I'm thrilled to share with you my first on-location coverage as I previewed

the San Vicente, or San Vicente, Redwood Forest Trail System in Santa Cruz, California earlier this month.

Now, if you listen to last week's episode, you got a snapshot of what to expect today,

but that snapshot pales in comparison to hearing directly from the four companies without whom

this trail system would not have been possible. You'll learn how the land trust of Santa Cruz

County, that's LTSCC, and the three conservation partners who own and manage the nearly 9,000-acre

San Vicente Redwood's property will open the first phase of an envisioned 38-mile multi-use trail system

this December 3rd. That's this coming Saturday. The other partners are Peninsula Open Space

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