MENDOCINO HERITAGE FURNITURE CO

The first Redwood fossils date back more than 200 million years to the Jurassic period. Before commercial logging and clear cutting began in the 1850s, coast Redwoods naturally occurred in an estimated 2 million acres... When gold was discovered in 1849, thousands of people came to California and the Redwood forests were logged extensively to satisfy the explosive demand for lumber and resources. Today, only 5 percent of the original old-growth forest remains... During the logging boom of the 1850's-1930's, many ancient Redwood logs sank to the the river bottom on the way to the sawmill.