Reinvesting in the park
John Driscoll of the Eureka Times-Standard reports miles of roads will be removed, hundreds of acres of forest improved and trails will be built over the next two years as part of a $9 million federal stimulus package for Redwood National and State Parks.
The funds will help complete the decade-long effort to pull more than 50 miles of old logging roads from the Lost Man Creek watershed. About $2.5 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 will go toward removing the last 4 miles of remaining road, and for upgrading access roads and improving a trail popular with mountain bikers and hikers.
The project aims to prevent millions of tons of sediment from bleeding into Lost Man Creek and protect about a third of the watershed that is untouched old-growth redwood forest, said parks geologist Mike Sanders. The parks have put in about $12 million since the work began in 2000.
