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From photos I've seen of this area of Big Basin, these trees sustained significant damage from the 2020 fire that burned through Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
It truly is a tragedy, even though fire is a natural part of a redwood ecosystem. It wasn't just a low-grade fire sticking mostly to the forest floor, which can be beneficial; it was a hot fire that even torched the tops of some trees.
So, I suppose this photo may be an icon, showing something that will not exist again for numerous future generations.
The road through this grove is actually a state highway that narrows to one lane just east of park headquarters.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park was the first state park in California. While not as beautiful as the redwood parks in Humboldt and Del Norte counties to the north, it may be the most well-known because of its proximity to millions of people (and successive generations) in the San Francisco Bay Area.
(While this photo of a Big Basin redwood grove is the same as the photo I offer for sale on Pixels/Fine Art America, the photo on this blog has been reduced in size to prevent pilfering of my original photo.)
