California Redwoods, Avenue of the Giants

Josef Eidenberger

This color intaglio was done by Eidenberger on his first trip to the U.S. in 1973. The "Avenue of the Giants" is a 31 mile drive, located in Northern California, along Highway 1, which follows the coastline through Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) was formed which administratively combined Redwood National Park with the three abutting Redwood State Parks in 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged. It was established for the purpose of cooperative forest management and stabilization of forests and watersheds as a single unit. The multi park Redwood National Park includes Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks among others.

As in many of the earlier artistic and photographic images the artist adds a human figure to give a sense of scale to the trees.