Lucille Vinyard: Mother of Redwoods
Lucille Vinyard [Original photo from the National Park Service. Colorized by Carl Young]
Vinyard was instrumental in the creation of the Redwood National Park in 1968.
An article by Cole Manley that takes an in-depth look at Vinyard’s contributions towards preserving redwood forests can be read on the National Park Service’s website by clicking here.
Note: Carl Young brings back old photos to life by colorizing them. He often posts his enlivened photos on Humboldt County, California in pictures, old and new.
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It was my absolute privilege and honor to meet her. She was one in a million and not enough could ever be told or said about her and the work she did, long before it was popular. Thank you for posting this and remembering her:
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/061401/cover0614.html
https://library.humboldt.edu/giving/vankirk.html
I had the pleasure of being the de facto staff photographer for the NC Journal, which meant going to her home in Trinidad and looking through her photos, and then driving her to Ladybird Johnson Grove north of there.
We decided on the location because it was fairly easy to access, and while she was spry and healthy, she felt she was too old for a strenuous hike.
It was a memorable day, hearing some of her stories about the struggle to save those groves. The only regret she had was that she couldn’t save more of those majestic giants.