Their parents, Forrest Reed, a professional forester, and Ruth Moore Reed, whose father worked for Pacific Lumber Co. in Scotia, bought the land 41 years ago. I feel great about this. This is what I wanted. Reed has been managing the land for the past 25 years. It lies on the headwaters of the north fork of the Tule River.
Every place is special.
The family held out to place the land in the national park because, in campaign speeches, George W. Bush had said he might reverse some of the Clinton administration's monument designations. If Reed and Matthews died, their children would have to log the sequoias to pay state tax. Over the past years, he has logged only the dead, dying and diseased trees and some young sequoias and white fir. Seeing the effects of people on the grove will be difficult, Reed said. Maybe 100 people a year have found their way there.