By Samuel Phineas Upham The Muir Woods in San Francisco represent some of the oldest forest formations in the world. Redwood and sequoia trees were present all throughout the United States, but overtime the population shrank to occupy a small belt between California and Oregon. This was before the logging industry came to California. There were roughly 2-million square acres of redwood forests occupying that narrow strip, but most of those acres had been torn down by the 20th century. What was left was mostly inaccessible land, and that’s what