Fun Facts and a Story about the Redwoods

Hello, my name is Joshua. I am The Homeschool Kid.

Today I am going to tell you a story about how the redwood trees were found and give you fun facts about them.

Photo courtesy of: https://www.ecowatch.com/ireland-redwood-forest-2093389547.html

This is the story.
There was a man named Augustus T. Dowd. His job was to go hunting for food for gold miners in the California Gold Rush. He was in the middle of tracking down a bear when he saw what looked like a wall through the bushes. He thought he should go take a look and he did. He was wrong! It was not a wall; it was a tree. The biggest tree he had ever seen! A T. Dowd was the first white man to ever see a redwood tree. "Them boys'll never believe this," he gasped. When he went back to the camp the next day, he told everyone about it. Just as he thought, no one believed him. Then some boys changed their minds and wanted to see for themselves. When they got there, their jaws dropped at what they saw. The most humongous trees in the world.

Fun Facts.

1. The oldest redwood tree is at least 2,200 years old!

2. The official Latin name for redwood trees is sequoia sempervirens.

3. Wild animals depend on redwoods to survive.

4. Redwood bark is one foot thick, so it is able to keep all insects (and sometimes fire) out of the tree.

Redwood layers.

Photo courtesy of: https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/about-the-trees.htm

This is the biggest tree on our homestead. It looks really small to me now!

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