Redwood National and State Parks
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How it came to be
The Yurok, Tolowa and Chilula had the closest ties to these coastal forests. In 1828 Jedediah Smith and nineteen companions crossed the interior of northern California and reached the coast near Requa. Gold found on the Trinity River in 1850 brought settlers, and native people were displaced and attacked; by 1910 about 120 Tolowa remained.
Logging followed mining. In 1918 John Merriam and other members of the Boone and Crockett Club founded the Save the Redwoods League and began buying land. In the 1920s the league helped create three state parks: Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast and Jedediah Smith Redwoods.
By the 1960s nearly 90 percent of the original redwoods had been cut. In October 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating the national park, and in 1978 an expansion under President Jimmy Carter added 19,281 ha. The parks were inscribed in 1980, and in 1994 the federal and state park services agreed to manage them jointly. In 2006 Hyperion, the tallest known living tree, was found inside the park; its location is kept secret.
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