This is Big Save the Redwoods League
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This is Big is a Save the Redwoods League podcast that explores the world’s most fascinating forests and the culture we’ve built around them. Hosted by Garrison Frost.
Learn more about Save the Redwoods League at https://www.savetheredwoods.org
Instagram: @savetheredwoods
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How old is that redwood?
As long as we have obsessed over the height of coast redwoods and giant sequoias, we’ve also pondered over their age. After all, these trees live on a timeline that extends hundreds, even thousands, of years longer than ours. And we’ve all been taught that the best way to learn the age of a tree is to cut it down and count tree rings, which unfortunately kills the tree. But is that the only way?
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The strange history of tunnel trees
If you go online and look for historical photos of redwoods, you’ll find lots of photos of people driving their cars through tunnels that have been cut into the trees. And you might ask yourself, how did this become a thing? Who wants to drive their car through a tree? Maybe you’ve driven a car through a redwood. In this first episode of This Is Big, we take a deep dive into this strange phenomenon and learn how it’s connected to the entire culture we’ve built around these magnificent forests.
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