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Larkspur stands today. Some of the trees were eight feet in diameter and lifted their immense bulk 300 feet upward." This newspaper account also described the hunting of a 375-
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Gardiner, who lived adjacent to the mouth of the canyon in the early 1900s, "One thing that is not appreciated today is the character of the redwood growth that existed here. There were thousands of
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