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From the adopted son of a robber baron to a bohemian woman winemaker to a Jesuit priest, resilient campaigners produced an unparalleled model of citizen action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“The decade-long study continued to reveal rich new layers about the men and women who never gave up, many of whom received little if any recognition for creating California’s first permanent state park,” Bliss wrote in the preface. “They came together to do what no one else in the country had done before, not only because they loved the redwood forests but also because of their innate humanity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFriends of Santa Cruz State Parks Executive Director Bonny Hawley authored the introduction. “The early preservationists endured one challenge after another over decades, with persistence and unselfish devotion,” said Hawley. “Their inspiring story could not be better timed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAlthough rooted in the turn of the 20th century, the book features a foreword by California State Parks Historian Martin Rizzo-Martínez and Mark Hylkema, supervisor of the California State Parks Cultural Resources Program that explores the history of native people in the region, including the Cotoni who inhabited the Big Basin area for centuries. 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