Q 01/05

Since 2022, which giant scavenging bird has soared over Redwood National Park again after more than a century away?

A) Turkey vulture

B) Bald eagle

C) Golden eagle

D) California condor

Answer · why

D) California condor

California condor. The species was once down to just 22 individuals; captive breeding saved it, and a tribe-led programme has been releasing young con...

Q 02/05

Coast redwoods are the world's tallest trees, but which close relative in the Sierra Nevada is the most massive?

A) Dawn redwood

B) Douglas fir

C) Sugar pine

D) Giant sequoia

Answer · why

D) Giant sequoia

Giant sequoia. It is shorter than a tall redwood but far bulkier in the trunk, and the two are different enough that botanists place them in separate ...

Q 03/05

Roughly what share of the original old-growth coast redwood forest is still standing today?

A) About 1 percent

B) About 5 percent

C) About 20 percent

D) About 60 percent

Answer · why

B) About 5 percent

About 5 percent. Nine-tenths had already been cut by the 1960s, barely a century after logging began, and nearly half of what survives stands inside R...

Q 04/05

Which president signed the bill creating Redwood National Park?

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Richard Nixon

D) Dwight Eisenhower

Answer · why

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson. The compromise he signed was built around three existing state parks and left most of the surrounding watershed open to clear-cutti...

Q 05/05

Redwood National Park's 1978 expansion took in miles of freshly clear-cut hillside, handing the Park Service which unusual long-term job?

A) Restoring the forest

B) Managing timber sales

C) Building a flood dam

D) Relocating a town

Answer · why

A) Restoring the forest

Restoring the forest. The cut-over slopes along Redwood Creek were shedding soil into the stream, so the park has spent decades healing land that arri...