A manual of the history and biology of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California : typescript, 1950.

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A manual of the history and biology of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California : typescript, 1950.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754863429

Several people are credited with help in supplying information: State Park Naturalist Leonard B. Penhale, and early pioneers and old residents Joseph C. Mello, Don Rodgers, and Alice Newman (daughter of Tom Maddock).

1 v. (43 p.)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Mello, Joseph C.

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Maddock, Tom.

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Newman, Alice.

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Penhale, Leonard B.

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Sempervirens Club of California

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Historical Note Andrew Putnam Hill was a San Jose artist and photographer who is credited with saving the old growth redwoods of Big Basin, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains of the California central coast area. Hill first saw the big trees of the redwood forest in 1899 when he was hired to photograph them for a magazine story. When he learned that they were to be logged he was inspired to work to prevent their destruction. From then on, mu...

Meadows, Donella H

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Meadows was employed four seasons (1946-1949) as summer Naturalist in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park. From the description of A manual of the history and biology of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California : typescript, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863429 Don Meadows was a prominent Orange County historian and scholar. Meadows was born in Shoals, Indiana on October 20, 1897 and his family moved to Orange County, California in 1903....