The OP Medium post links to numerous sources. I would direct you to Blue Forest's white paper from 2017 that kicked off their founding. It's extremely well wr

The OP Medium post links to numerous sources. I would direct you to Blue Forest's white paper from 2017 that kicked off their founding. It's extremely well written and cited[0]. The coastal redwood forest still needs lots of ecological thinning. Here are some articles and papers you might find interesting from non-profit and governmental organizations: San Vicente Redwoods [1] - SV Redwoods is a collaboration between The Nature Conservancy, Save the Redwoods League, Sempervirens Fund, Peninsula Open Space Trust, and The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County - One goal is to accelerate the return of the forest to old-growth, increase fire resiliency, and improve biodiversity and habitat. Mill Creek Restoration Project in Redwood NP and CA Redwood SPs [2] - A collaboration between Save the Redwoods League, Smith River Alliance, and Redwood National and State Parks. -Video link[3] showcasing the forest restoration segment (starts at 4m00s and runs until 6m20s; it continues into road removal and salmonid benefits if you’re interested). Thinning Stands Boosts Wildlife Diversity [4] - Conducted in Redwood NP and Del Norte Redwood SP and supported by Save the Redwoods League. - Found that small mammals and birds increased dramatically within five years of areas that were thinned vs. unthinned areas. - “At a minimum, thinning results in vegetative developmental and ecological trajectories that are several decades, if not substantially longer, ahead of stands that were not thinned,” Slauson said. “The overall result is that restoratively thinned stands have begun to develop the understory vegetative complexity and productivity to support small vertebrate communities that much more closely resemble old-growth stands than stands that have not been thinned.” Old Redwood Forest Restoration: Quantifying Forest Characteristics and Development of Initial Restoration Treatments [5] - Funded by Save the Redwoods League. - How do you move toward old-growth characteristics most efficiently? “With judicious thinning,” said Joe McBride, University of California, Berkeley, Forestry Ecology Professor. “You can look at old-growth stands as representing a process of natural thinning that took hundreds of years. You have a few survivors per acre that are now the big trees—they’ve outcompeted adjacent trees over time.” - The results showed that at the better-watered sites (both in Humboldt), large, medium, and small redwoods were all randomly distributed. At the drier site (Armstrong), small and medium trees were clumped and large trees were randomly distributed. “One has the idea based on the fairy rings you see in redwood stands that the big trees are all clumped,” McBride said. “We found that not to be the case.” [0] https://collaboration.worldbank.org/content/usergenerated/asi/cloud/attachments/sites/collaboration-for-development/en/groups/green-finance-community-of-practice/blogs/jcr:content/content/primary/blog/the_forest_resilienc-whtD/FRB%202017%20Roadmap%20Report.pdf https://collaboration.worldbank.org/content/usergenerated/as... [1]https://openspacetrust.org/blog/redwood-forest/ https://openspacetrust.org/blog/redwood-forest/ [2]https://smithriveralliance.org/millcreek/ https://smithriveralliance.org/millcreek/ [3]https://youtu.be/t_vWK7Kyix8?t=240 https://youtu.be/t_vWK7Kyix8?t=240 [4]https://www.savetheredwoods.org/grant/thinning-stands-boosts-wildlife-diversity/ https://www.savetheredwoods.org/grant/thinning-stands-boosts... [5]https://www.savetheredwoods.org/grant/old-redwood-forest-restoration/ https://www.savetheredwoods.org/grant/old-redwood-forest-res...