Keep the program to save the trees as the main topic , the big trucks are not worth mentioning in fact they steel from the issue.

Highway 101 at Richarson Grove should not be widened. The widening will disrupt the old growth eco-system that is crucial to making the park the gem that it is. There are only about 3% of the original old growth redwood forests left in Northern California. What is left should not be interfered with in any way. The trees have an important part to play in the ecological web. Any disruption will create even more imbalance in that web than already exists.
The impetus behind the widening of Highway 101 at Richardson Grove is greed and ignorance as it usually is. This is quite obvious. Hopefully Cal Trans will be able to understand this and not go through with the highway widening project.

Sincerely,
Meaveen O’Connor

Ah ha! In a recent news broadcast they were talking about how tourism has become less and less, except for in Northern California where people still flock to see the Redwoods. So here’s your angle. While Humboldt and Del Norte Counties continue to grow and focus their economy based on tourism, use this! Use this as propaganda to increase traffic to this area, to bring the rest of the countries focus to where the 4 lane straight as an arrow highways give way to how it used to be, where they are one with nature. I do recognize that this will increase traffic concerns, so from that we need to create something like a “safety corridor” where people have to drive slow and admire the trees. However, it needs to be called something other than a safety corridor for CalTrans to go with it, because safety corridors indicate there is a safety problem and if there are wrecks they are responsible. Well we’re all responsible because it is our tax money that pays the sue-happy. I’m excited about this idea, I hope it makes sense. In short, create a “special tourism arena” for that part of the road, reduce the speed limit substantially, it’s a short stretch of road, pump it up as one heck of a tourist attraction and sell it to the Counties and the State as they will receive more revenue, support our counties and the trees. We have to approach this is a way that supports everyone. Good Luck!

I wonder if you’ve asked the Citizens what they think. We don’t care about a two lane road. We care about the beauty that is seen in Richardsons’ Groove State Park.
Please leave it alone.