Quests & Resources

Browsable companions to the project: a forest quest for the kids, the Helping Hands wall, and the mini-golf restoration plan.

First Quest

The Forest Scavenger Hunt

Find at least 7 of these 10 (skip up to 3), notice each with your senses, and have a grown-up initial your sheet to earn your first Redwood token — the Scavenger.

Keep it tight. Stay on the trails — tiny plants and roots are easily crushed.

Save a bear’s life. Never feed wildlife; store food tight. “A fed bear is a dead bear.”

Look, don’t taste. Never eat anything wild unless a trusted adult says it’s safe. Poison oak: “leaves of three, let it be.”

#	Find	What to look for
1	Coast Redwood	Tallest trees on Earth — tip your head WAY back. Hug the trunk: how many friends to reach around?
2	Redwood Sorrel	A carpet of little green “shamrocks.” Watch one in a sunbeam — it may fold its leaves down.
3	Sword Fern	Tall fronds; each leaflet has a tiny “hilt.” Ferns are older than dinosaurs!
4	Banana Slug	Yellow and slow — the forest’s clean-up crew. Find one (don’t pick it up).
5	Pacific Rhododendron	Big pink flower clusters in late spring. Spot a bloom or bud.
6	Huckleberry	Shiny leaves, tiny dark berries. (Taste only if a grown-up says yes.)
7	Salal	Leathery leaves, dark blue berries dried into cakes by Native peoples.
8	Western Trillium	Three leaves, three white petals. Look — but DO NOT pick it.
9	Douglas-fir	Find a cone; look for tiny “mouse tails” between the scales!
10	Salmonberry	Pink flowers, then orange-red raspberry-like berries by early summer.

This land is the homeland of the Yurok and Tolowa peoples, the redwood coast’s first stewards. A printable version with an adult reference guide (facts + citations) is available.

Legacy

The Helping Hands Wall

A wall of colorful handprints recording who tended this land — dense and joyful on white, with a growth story layered on top. Suggested home: the clubhouse first, then the bridge and other spots as it fills.

Kids add a handprint each year, outlined around last year’s — showing how they’ve grown.
Work/stay adults (month+) get a bigger hand and may name a tree.
Color-coded by contribution: kid helper, trade, hands-on labor, gardening.

Primary Work

Mini-Golf Restoration

Repaint priority stations and reset the numbers (weather-permitting; tarps down, yard closed while drying). Each themed hole — Lighthouse, Well, Schoolhouse — becomes a doorway into a community journey, linked from the scorecard.

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