On a day when the early morning sun is filling the mist-shrouded canopy of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park with an iridescent glow, Mike Fay hooks his ascender to a climbing rope and "jugs" up a ...

State park employees work alongside national park ... Long corpuscular rays of sunlight filter through the redwood canopy, illuminating verdant green mosses, and sword ferns, and pastel flowers ...