> People don’t do that because they don’t really want old growth redwoods specifically and or don’t generally care about sustainability. Yip, folks got greedy

> People don’t do that because they don’t really want old growth redwoods specifically and or don’t generally care about sustainability. Yip, folks got greedy and cut down the redwoods. They use to be common, running all the way from south of San Francisco to well into Oregon. What remains is a patch work. "Today, only 5 percent of the original old-growth coast redwood forest remains, along a 450-mile coastal strip." [1] > You could use old growth redwoods as a renewable resource, you just cut down ~1/500th per year across a large enough area Hence to do that, we're probably talking nobody cutting down another red wood for a good 500 years. Considering Europeans have been at it for only about 200, and have nearly cut down all of the redwoods... ... I would urge anyone to go visit these trees. It's truly soul-touching, they are something to be protected, if only for that. [1] https://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/# https://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/#