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September 23, 2009

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine

Fourteen stories up a 30-story tree, Humboldt State University scientist Steve Sillett (at center) and his team measure a fire cave in a massive redwood in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Wildfires have twice burned this tree but failed to kill it.


See more photographs from the October 2009 feature story "Redwoods."

Photograph by Michael Nichols

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