Redwood's National Park Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Redwood National Park (California) became a National Park on October 2, 1968. Card Blueprints uses October 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1968 is unused.

Coordinate: the 7 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/7-of-diamonds.

Parks that share October 2

• North Cascades — October 2, 1968

Other parks on the 7 of Diamonds

• North Cascades — 7 of Diamonds

Redwood on the record

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of one United States national park and three California state parks located along the coast of northern California. The combined RNSP contain Redwood National Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. The parks' 139,000 acres (217 mi2; 560 km2) preserve 45 percent of all remaining old-growth coast redwood forests. Located in Del Norte and Humboldt counties, the four parks protect the endangered coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)—the tallest, among the oldest, and one of the most massive tree species on Earth—which thrives in the humid temperate rainforest. The park region is highly seismically active and prone to tsunamis. The parks preserve 37 miles (60 km) of pristine coastline, indigenous flora, fauna, grassland prairie, cultural resources, waterways, as well as threatened animal species, such as the Chinook salmon, northern spotted owl, and Steller's sea lion. Redwood forest originally covered more than 8,100 km2 (3,100 sq mi) of the California coast, and the region of today's parks largely remained wild until after 1850. The Gold Rush and attendant timber business unleashed a torrent of activity, adversely affecting the indigenous peoples of the area and supplying lumber to the West Coast. Decades of unrestricted clear-cut logging ensued, followed by ardent conservation efforts. In the 1920s, the Save the Redwoods League helped create Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks, among others. After lobbying from the league and the Sierra Club, Congress created Redwood National Park in 1968 and expanded it in 1978. In 1994, the National Park Service (NPS) and the California Department of Parks and Recreation combined Redwood National Park with the three abutting Redwoods State Parks into a single administrative unit.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Redwood National and State Parks (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. National Park establishment dates come from the Wikipedia list column and NPS Park Anniversaries, not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Redwood use?

October 2, 1968 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Redwood's National Park birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the park.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: Wikipedia List of national parks of the United States, Date established as park. Footnotes: NPS Park Anniversaries. This park’s Wikipedia National Park date is the first-unit date used here; any later rename or expansion is noted when Wikipedia or NPS records it.

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