San Mateo County Second Growth Redwood Forests
100’s of years since the park area was logged a new forest of redwoods and other trees have grown.
Virgin Redwoods, Redwood Sorrel, yellow banana slugs, sword fern
Bordering is a mixed Evergreen Forest, Tanbard Oak, Madrones, Douglas Firs are dominant.
Characteristics: same size trees, a single layer tree canopy, relatively few standing snags, and few, small sized decaying logs on the forest floor.