LITTLE RIVER, 2/16/21 — It was almost 50 years ago that Teresa Sholars first found her way to the Mendocino Coast. On weekends in her 20s, she would leave early in the morning from her home in Davis, California, where she was working towards her masters degree, and drive four hours through grassland, redwoods, and mountains until she reached Mendocino’s pygmy forest ecosystem — a miniature forest made up of gray, scraggly trees with trunks no thicker than the handle of a broomstick and no taller than the average adult.
Sholars was there on a mission to figure out why the trees in the pygmy are so small.
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