Ventana Wilderness

Shattered Redwood

The forest was hit hard by the Kirk Complex fires of 1999. Many of the redwoods did not die in the fire, but were injured and have fallen in storms in the years since. Some areas looked like the redwoods knocked each other down like dominos; the section just south of camp was like this. These were huge trees, they must have shook the ground with so many coming down at once.