I just spent a pleasant six minutes and 46 seconds visiting corners of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz mountains, via video produced by Christopher Bauer at KQED's superb Quest science unit in San Francisco. What I saw is a paean to and meditation on mystery, and on surprise, and on the semi-religious feelings inspired by wandering through an old growth redwood grove and finding ghosts.
I also see an opportunity for some heavier reporting. The program is all about reverence and the diversity of nature, but without providing much more than...