I can only imagine what the settlers of California’s Russian River must have thought as they stared up at the towering redwood trees. I can only imagine what the settlers of California’s Russian River must have thought as they stared up at the towering redwood trees. I know I was amazed as I rode in Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, beneath redwoods that rose up to the sky the length of a football field, with trunks the width of a truck. Russian fur traders hunting coastal sea ott


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