Oregon’s State Fossil is Alive and Well in Bush’s Pasture Park
In 2005, the Oregon Legislature adopted the Dawn Redwood Tree (Metasequoia) as Oregon’s state fossil. The story of how this came to happen and how a “living fossil” came to grow in Bush’s Pasture Park is a fascinating one. Dawn Redwoods were common during the Paleocene and Eocene Epochs (beginning about 55 million years ago),…