We hiked a section of redwood forest that had been harvested for timber years ago. It was sort of depressing to see the huge old decaying stumps as all that remains of those grand trees. But, if you stepped back a little and noticed, around each old stump was growing a ring of new redwood trees, sometimes as many as 6 or 8. Mother Nature still won and maybe man will figure out how not to mess it up again. It was a pretty hike into a fern filled valley with a tumbling creek at the floor.