How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated

Re:How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of th... by araes on Sunday March 31, 2024 @12:37PM (#39885724)

Not being from California, those are way further away than I thought from the article. Sounded like, "Muir Wood said no, so we walked down the road a bit."

Google Maps says more like ~270 miles: https://www.google.com/maps/search/Del+Norte+forest/@39.8350...

Distance measurement gets lost on the link, yet Del Norte is almost Oregon, and Muir Woods is San Fran.

Also, while there's definitely clearcutting in the area, such as:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Del+Norte+forest/@41.5564...

A lot seems like areas where they just didn't/don't even bother replanting. 40 years after 1983, it would probably be a pretty decent size redwood forest again. For maybe ... a $1 a tree? (based on some of those NGOs. Heck, hire an NGO to do it.)

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Re:How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of th... by smcin on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:17PM (#39889531)

Umm the SFGate article was sloppy about everything, that's specifically why I wrote "Del Norte County, the northwestern tip of California; also Humboldt County." Not Muir Woods, Marin County (close to ILM), the county just north of SF, over the Golden Gate Bridge.

If you know that California is big (1040 miles from north to south), then the northwestern tip of California is going to be a long way north of Marin and SF.

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