redwood trees in Auburn Ca?
La Seyne-sur-Mer My honey and i went to audurn ca on vacation, we thought we seen redwood trees but a person ..said that they don’t grow there..believe me there were big and tall..
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Sandoro
29 Jan 2010
jellybeanchick
29 Jan 2010
That person was right. I’m sure you saw trees that were big and tall, but they weren’t redwoods. The trees in the area around Auburn are more along the lines of pine trees and fir trees, maybe with a little cedar or oak in the mix. The tall redwood trees are the Coast Redwood and are found much closer to the California coast. The massive sequoia trees, also redwoods, are a lot farther south of Auburn, around Sequoia National Park.
Sandoro is right, there may have been some redwood trees there that people have planted. So you might have seen a redwood tree or two in someone’s yard. But if you are talking about the natural forest in the area, there are no redwood trees.
Not all big and tall trees in California are redwoods. They could have been sequoia trees, which are in the same tree species as redwoods, and grow tall.
And they could have indeed been redwoods. But redwoods can only grow naturally on the coast. They can grow inland too, but they have to be artificially planted, and will grow there, but they cannot reproduce in that climate.
I live in Eugene, Oregon. We have hundreds of redwood trees growing in the city limits. They’ll grow in this climate, but won’t reproduce and don’t thrive as well.
Redwood trees need to be in a natural environment that has periodic forest fires, mild rainy winters, and coastal summer fog during the dry season for moisture. The trees themselves have thick enough bark to withstand fire, but the heat of forest fires is what splits their cones and allows the seed to germinate and take root as a baby redwood.
Auburn, California is also an inland climate, probably not much different from Eugene, except that it has hotter summers. So I would imagine that redwood trees do grow in Auburn, just not naturally. They were planted there by humans.