Saving the tallest trees on Earth

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Redwood National and State Parks are home to giants: coast redwoods that can grow as tall as a thirty-story building. These ancient California forests support hundreds of different species, and store more carbon than any other forest on the planet. But in the last century, 95% of them were felled by loggers. Now, scientists have discovered a surprising strategy to foster the next generation of old-growth redwoods… and it involves chopping some of the younger trees down. This week’s episode comes to us from “THE WILD with Chris Morgan,” produced by our friends at KUOW. Chris has got an infectious enthusiasm for the natural world, and the podcast has an immersive sound that makes it feel like you’re standing right under the redwoods with him. LINKS Check out more episodes of THE WILD at https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/thewild SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or join our private discussion group on Facebook. THE WILD CREDITS THE WILD is a production of KUOW and Chris Morgan Wildlife, with support from Wildlife Media. It is produced by Matt Martin and Lucy Soucek. It is edited by Jim Gates. It is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Theme music is by Michael Parker. OUTSIDE/IN CREDITS Outside/In Host: Nate Hegyi Executive producer: Taylor Quimby NHPR’s Director of On-Demand Audio is Rebecca Lavoie Our staff includes Justine Paradis, Felix Poon, and Marina Henke. Our intern is Catherine Hurley. Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio Submit a question to the “Outside/Inbox.” We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to outsidein@nhpr.org or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is outside in. I'm Nate Hedgy. Fair warning. This is not an ad. This is the real show.
0:07.0	But over the weekend, I tried on a pair of those Apple Vision goggles.
0:12.0	Now I've always laughed them off as looking really goofy because you
0:14.5	know honestly they do look goofy but wholly beep. I watched this virtual reality
0:22.1	clip that shows an NBA game from the sidelines and no joke it felt like I was literally there
0:29.0	I mean at one point the basketball flew right at my face and I actually flinched.
0:33.4	It was immersive.
0:34.8	And that's kind of how I feel when I listen to an episode of KUOW's podcast, The Wild, with
0:48.9	Chris Morgan.
0:50.1	I don't know what they're using for mics, but their sound design is immersive.
0:54.8	This season they're exploring national parks and you feel like you are right there right alongside
1:00.5	host Chris Morgan. So today on the show, we want to share an episode with you.
1:05.2	And buckle up because you're about to travel to the Redwood forests of Northern California.
1:10.6	These are the sorts of giants you might think would be more immersive in video, but you're wrong. Trust me. You might even flinch. The Okay, I could tell already I'm going to get neck ache this week.
1:40.0	I've just jumped out of my truck at the side of a long winding road. It's dark and the sky is really heavy.
1:49.0	Oh, lightning! Lightning. I've driven 600 miles from home to this forest in Redwood National and State Parks
2:07.6	and as soon as I crossed the border into this protected park just like that I'm in a grove of some of the tallest trees on the planet.
2:15.5	I've never seen anything like it. Immediately it feels like another world.
2:27.6	These are giant coastal redwoods and their home here in Northern California is a powerful place, raw and energetic and ancient dripping with life and very wet.
2:37.0	But as I carry on a bit further down the road, it's a different story.
2:46.0	A reminder of the grim past. I'm driving down this road and it's eerie because it's just lined as far as you can see with massive
3:00.4	redwood stumps. It feels like driving through a redwood graveyard in some ways.
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