Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostroboidesDawn redwoods once blanketed the entire Northern Hemisphere and were thought to have been extinct for millions of years until their rediscovery in 1941 by a Chinese forester in a remote corner of the Sichuan (at the time, Szechuan) Province in south central China. Somehow, a little over one thousand trees had survived for millennia in a region that ironically is not even Metasequoias ideal environment! How then, did it survive in the Shui sha Valley