How the Huimen Coast Miwok cared for Muir Woods for millennia before tourists ever walked its trails

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The Huimen Coast Miwok, stewards of Muir Woods

For 10,000 years, the Huimen Coast Miwok called Muir Woods home.

They burned the forest floor every few decades, creating the pristine redwood groves that European settlers would later claim as untouched wilderness. Mission enslavement and disease wiped them out by 1817…

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