Q 01/05

Redwood National Park is on the coast of which U.S. state?

A) California

B) Oregon

C) Washington

D) Alaska

Answer · why

A) California

It sits about 325 miles north of San Francisco in Del Norte and Humboldt counties.

Q 02/05

Which species of tree is the park named for and built around?

A) Giant sequoia

B) Coast redwood

C) Dawn redwood

D) Sitka spruce

Answer · why

B) Coast redwood

Its scientific name, Sequoia sempervirens, means roughly 'everlasting'; the giant sequoia of the Sierra is a different genus.

Q 03/05

Roughly what share of remaining old-growth coast redwood do the Redwood parks protect?

A) 45%

B) 50%

C) 70%

D) 90%

Answer · why

A) 45%

About 96 percent of the original old growth was logged; only around 3 percent could ever be saved, Olmsted concluded in 1927.

Q 04/05

Which president signed the bill creating Redwood National Park in October 1968?

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Richard Nixon

D) Dwight Eisenhower

Answer · why

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

Five logging companies had formally objected in 1965, and the final bill was largely framed on the loggers' terms.

Q 05/05

Which president signed the 1978 expansion that added 48,000 acres, much of it already logged?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Jimmy Carter

C) Ronald Reagan

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

B) Jimmy Carter

At hundreds of millions of dollars it was the most expensive land purchase Congress had ever approved.