You can find ‘Yoga in the Redwoods’ at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton teaching in the Iyengar Yoga tradition

Pilot program features outdoor classes at Big Basin, Henry Cowell

Through one of the activities in the newly launched Redwood Rx program, participants learn to write in partnership with nature. The activity is one in a series running through October that are focused on nature-based health and wellness. (Credit: Mountain Parks Foundation)

Mountain Parks Foundation announces the launch of Redwood Rx, which provides nature-based guided programs at Henry Cowell, Fall Creek, and Big Basin Redwoods State Parks.

Limited public access to the fire-scarred park returns almost two years after CZU Fire

In 2020, a blaze consumed Big Basin Redwoods State Park, incinerating cabins, blackening ancient trees, and imperiling endangered murrelets. Staff now want to reimagine the park to better ensure the seabird’s future.

By Sarah Gilman
Reporter, Audubon Magazine
Summer 2022

Rancho del Oso Nature and History Center will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Memorial Day Weekend, May 29 and 30.

More than eight months after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire swept through Big Basin, signs of renewal can be seen.

BIG BASIN — The Douglas fir came crashing down just a couple dozen feet from the famous “Mother of the Forest” tree Friday, and the impact shook the earth, blowing another smoldering hot spot into live flames. The fire-damaged fir was taken down with chainsaws in a controlled fall, to prevent it from toppling on its own and damaging one of the old-growth giants still standing a stone’s throw away…

Mercury News

History

Ambrose Bierce was a close friend of Josephine Clifford McCrackin, both popular writers and journalists. Bierce came to visit her Loma Prieta home on the weekend of Oct. 7 and 8,1899, bringing his 23-year-old protegee, poet Herman Scheffauer. They stayed at Hotel Bohemia, in the hamlet of Burrell, on Loma Prieta Avenue and Summit Road.

Santa Cruz Sentinel
By ROSS ERIC GIBSON