Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Redwood National Park fire ecologist talks about the benefits of restoring small fires in a mixed-conifer forest. This was filmed in October 2017 during a prescribed fire in the Bald Hills of the park.
Redwood National Park fire ecologist talks about the benefits of restoring small fires in a mixed-conifer forest. This was filmed in October 2017 during a prescribed fire in the Bald Hills of the park.


![Find Your Peaceful Redwoods: Walking Along Prairie Creek
Episode 5:
Take a couple of virtual minutes to get your feet slightly wet as a ranger walks along the banks of Prairie Creek. This is ancestral Yurok lands.
[Video description: a uniformed national park ranger walks along a cobbled creek. Redwoods, maples, fir and other trees line both sides of the creek. The ranger steps over logs and under branches. The creek is about 20 feet wide and is fairly shallow and calm]. Find Your Peaceful Redwoods: Walking Along Prairie Creek](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/98oDnHWvNLU/mqdefault.jpg)



![What Good is a Redwood?
Join Ranger Greg to discover some of the unexpected, but important things redwood forests do for us all.
[Note: In 2016 - a year after this video was produced - new research showed that an acre of old-growth redwoods can hold 1,000 metric tons of carbon. This is almost four times the previously reported data that was used in this video] What Good is a Redwood?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B2FemnzAHuk/mqdefault.jpg)



