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April 10, 2008
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Muir Woods has been a national monument for 100 years! I love how the man who donated the land, William Kent, declined to have it named after him. So they named it after Sierra Club Founder John Muir instead.
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For 45,000 – 50,000 years, peat swamps in New Zealand have preserved the wood of Ancient Kauri trees. The wood is not petrified– it is workable. This page details a staircase built from one of the enormous logs.
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geekhiker | April 10, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Have you ever been to Muir Woods? It’s incredibly beautiful…
2. ideonexus.com » Blo&hellip | April 16, 2008 at 4:02 am
[...] Ancient Kauri is 45,000 year old wood dug up from swamps in New Zealand, with trunks so large you can make a staircase out of it. (HT TGAW) [...]