ghostsofevolution | CTL 9A - California Redwoods Thrive in Pacific NW (Intro & Hutt Park) @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded August 2017 | Updated October 2024, 19 minutes ago.
CTL 9a is the first in a 9-part series of videos on how landscapers (beginning a century or more ago) introduced California's Coast Redwood and interior Giant Sequoia to the Pacific Northwest — ranging from Portland to Puget Sound.
Narration in Hutt Park, Seattle, is provided by Connie Barlow (founder of Torreya Guardians), Michael Foster (founder of the Seattle chapter of Plant-for-the-Planet), and Philip Stielstra (founder of "Moving the Giants to Puget Sound"). A special thanks to Jesse Curran, horticulturalist with Edmonds Parks Maintenance, who alerted Philip Stielstra to the naturalizing redwoods of Hutt Park.
00:08 - Introduction by Connie Barlow (in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park)
02:50 - Introduction to naturalized grove at Seabeck WA, which is shown in detail as Episode CTL 9F (2019), accessible here: thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
04:44 - Hutt Park, north of Seattle, background info
05:41 - Profiles of the 3 Hutt Park explorers on June 25, 2017 (Barlow, Stielstra, Foster)
08:43 - Philip Stielstra speaks alongside the "Mother Tree" in Hutt Park; another original mature redwood is some 50 feet away but wasn't filmed in this video.
09:34 - Philip at the oldest group of younger redwoods
12:01 - Foster speaks by a young redwood where surroundings have been pruned.
Correction: Park Staff confirm that trimmed branches and outer-bark scraping owe to removal of exotic ivy Spring 2017. Ivy removal by Earth Corps and area volunteers continues, with 3 more work sessions scheduled for 2017. Goal: total ivy removal and replacement by native Salal, Oregon grape, ferns, and mulch as ground cover.
15:37 - Michael Foster says redwoods sequester excess carbon
16:48 - Foster photo, as one of 5 climate activist 'valve turners' in 2016
16:58 - Foster & Barlow discuss severe problems caused by introduction of English Ivy
17:35 - Stielstra recounts Ivy removal; a young redwood liberated from ivy
18:47 - Smallest redwood seen before Foster and Stielstra depart; Barlow keeps exploring
19:20 - Barlow returns to the "Mother Tree" redwood; evidence of pollen cone
20:40 - Correction: both spruce trees are Norway Spruce, not Sitka Spruce
21:53 - Redwood, 12-foot-tall, has basal sprouts and nascent burls on stem
23:23 - Close look at a mature native Grand Fir conifer tree
24:15 - Discovery of a very young redwood seedling, alongside path and ivy
26:24 - A second Sitka Spruce, much younger, struggling in shade
26:54 - Discovery of a second invasive species (laurel?) from the original landscaping
27:30 - Views of invasive English Ivy creating dense coverings on mature tree trunks
28:49 - How both the invasive, ivy and laurel(?) is hard to destroy; regrows from roots
29:43 - Difference in bark bt. mature Douglas-fir and Grand Fir
30:18 - Difference in bark bt. mature Douglas-fir and Western Red Cedar
30:53 - Very large specimens of native Bigleaf Maple
31:24 - Another very young redwood seedling by path and ivy
33:12 - Another huge Bigleaf Maple near an old Douglas-fir
33:55 - Connie shows an old native Pacific Yew and how to distinguish from redwood
36:43 - Entering the widest trail, where many seedlings grow right alongside it
37:04 - The only seedling indeterminate as to whether it is redwood or yew
38:06 - back to viewing a number of very small redwood seedlings
41:33 - Western Hemlock tree growing on "stilts" over a decomposing Red Cedar stump
42:14 - Resume survey of young redwoods along widest path
42:29 - Redwood seedlings struggling to rise above the shade of giant Sword Ferns
45:40 - Seedling made a 90-degree turn to find the sun
46:13 - An old Bigleaf Maple, then continue finding redwood seedlings along wide trail
48:35 - Detour on small trail to visit the biggest, oldest Douglas-fir in Hutt Park
50:24 - Discovery of the tiniest redwood seedling, underneath huge fronds of Sword Fern
51:33 - A larger redwood seedling on the opposite side of the wide path.
52:42 - Return to beginning, alongside one of the original two Redwood trees now mature
55:11 - Field videography ends, closing slides and list of affiliated groups
UPDATE ON HUTT PARK REDWOODS, DECEMBER 2019: Apparently 90% of the redwoods onsite were planted, so very few of those shown in this video are indeed evidence of full species "naturaliization." However, even though only a few are in that category, the evidence is still solid that this California native is fully capable of maintaining, reproducing, dispersing, and establishing in fog-laden regions of coastal Pac-NW. As to ongoing invasive species removal, targeted species are English Ivy, English Laurel, and Himalayan Blackberry. Replacement by natives are mostly understory species, with some Sitka Spruce, Grandfir, Shore Pine, and Pacific Madrone trees. Original non-native trees left in place are the 2 tall Redwoods, 1 Deodar Cedar, and Norway Spruce.
List of all 34 videos in "CLIMATE, TREES, & LEGACY" SERIES by Connie Barlow:
thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
CTL 9a is the first in a 9-part series of videos on how landscapers (beginning a century or more ago) introduced California's Coast Redwood and interior Giant Sequoia to the Pacific Northwest — ranging from Portland to Puget Sound.
Narration in Hutt Park, Seattle, is provided by Connie Barlow (founder of Torreya Guardians), Michael Foster (founder of the Seattle chapter of Plant-for-the-Planet), and Philip Stielstra (founder of "Moving the Giants to Puget Sound"). A special thanks to Jesse Curran, horticulturalist with Edmonds Parks Maintenance, who alerted Philip Stielstra to the naturalizing redwoods of Hutt Park.
00:08 - Introduction by Connie Barlow (in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park)
02:50 - Introduction to naturalized grove at Seabeck WA, which is shown in detail as Episode CTL 9F (2019), accessible here: thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
04:44 - Hutt Park, north of Seattle, background info
05:41 - Profiles of the 3 Hutt Park explorers on June 25, 2017 (Barlow, Stielstra, Foster)
08:43 - Philip Stielstra speaks alongside the "Mother Tree" in Hutt Park; another original mature redwood is some 50 feet away but wasn't filmed in this video.
09:34 - Philip at the oldest group of younger redwoods
12:01 - Foster speaks by a young redwood where surroundings have been pruned.
Correction: Park Staff confirm that trimmed branches and outer-bark scraping owe to removal of exotic ivy Spring 2017. Ivy removal by Earth Corps and area volunteers continues, with 3 more work sessions scheduled for 2017. Goal: total ivy removal and replacement by native Salal, Oregon grape, ferns, and mulch as ground cover.
15:37 - Michael Foster says redwoods sequester excess carbon
16:48 - Foster photo, as one of 5 climate activist 'valve turners' in 2016
16:58 - Foster & Barlow discuss severe problems caused by introduction of English Ivy
17:35 - Stielstra recounts Ivy removal; a young redwood liberated from ivy
18:47 - Smallest redwood seen before Foster and Stielstra depart; Barlow keeps exploring
19:20 - Barlow returns to the "Mother Tree" redwood; evidence of pollen cone
20:40 - Correction: both spruce trees are Norway Spruce, not Sitka Spruce
21:53 - Redwood, 12-foot-tall, has basal sprouts and nascent burls on stem
23:23 - Close look at a mature native Grand Fir conifer tree
24:15 - Discovery of a very young redwood seedling, alongside path and ivy
26:24 - A second Sitka Spruce, much younger, struggling in shade
26:54 - Discovery of a second invasive species (laurel?) from the original landscaping
27:30 - Views of invasive English Ivy creating dense coverings on mature tree trunks
28:49 - How both the invasive, ivy and laurel(?) is hard to destroy; regrows from roots
29:43 - Difference in bark bt. mature Douglas-fir and Grand Fir
30:18 - Difference in bark bt. mature Douglas-fir and Western Red Cedar
30:53 - Very large specimens of native Bigleaf Maple
31:24 - Another very young redwood seedling by path and ivy
33:12 - Another huge Bigleaf Maple near an old Douglas-fir
33:55 - Connie shows an old native Pacific Yew and how to distinguish from redwood
36:43 - Entering the widest trail, where many seedlings grow right alongside it
37:04 - The only seedling indeterminate as to whether it is redwood or yew
38:06 - back to viewing a number of very small redwood seedlings
41:33 - Western Hemlock tree growing on "stilts" over a decomposing Red Cedar stump
42:14 - Resume survey of young redwoods along widest path
42:29 - Redwood seedlings struggling to rise above the shade of giant Sword Ferns
45:40 - Seedling made a 90-degree turn to find the sun
46:13 - An old Bigleaf Maple, then continue finding redwood seedlings along wide trail
48:35 - Detour on small trail to visit the biggest, oldest Douglas-fir in Hutt Park
50:24 - Discovery of the tiniest redwood seedling, underneath huge fronds of Sword Fern
51:33 - A larger redwood seedling on the opposite side of the wide path.
52:42 - Return to beginning, alongside one of the original two Redwood trees now mature
55:11 - Field videography ends, closing slides and list of affiliated groups
UPDATE ON HUTT PARK REDWOODS, DECEMBER 2019: Apparently 90% of the redwoods onsite were planted, so very few of those shown in this video are indeed evidence of full species "naturaliization." However, even though only a few are in that category, the evidence is still solid that this California native is fully capable of maintaining, reproducing, dispersing, and establishing in fog-laden regions of coastal Pac-NW. As to ongoing invasive species removal, targeted species are English Ivy, English Laurel, and Himalayan Blackberry. Replacement by natives are mostly understory species, with some Sitka Spruce, Grandfir, Shore Pine, and Pacific Madrone trees. Original non-native trees left in place are the 2 tall Redwoods, 1 Deodar Cedar, and Norway Spruce.
List of all 34 videos in "CLIMATE, TREES, & LEGACY" SERIES by Connie Barlow:
thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html
