奧塞內爾·查利斯·馬什
The forest was discovered in 1870 by Othniel Charles Marsh. Marsh determined that the petrified trees were "Sequoia langsdorfii" from the Sequoia genus. There is also one petrified pine tree in the forest. Robert Louis Stevenson mentioned the forest in his book "The Silverado Squatters" (1883).