Since time immemorial, Lalongkok peoples have lived respectfully among and cared for these redwoods, but European cultural ideology brought lasting negative impacts to native cultural practices and genocide of Lolongkok tribal members. Today, indigenous peoples continue to nurture a spiritual relationship with their ancestral lands in and around this grove. Logging in Humboldt County in the early 1900s alarmed the California Federation of Women's Clubs, and local activists including Laura Perrott Mahan worked to rally conservationists to create a federal redwood park, though early efforts to preserve the redwoods for the public were unsuccessful. In 1918, Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and John C. Merriam founded Save the Redwoods League after a life-changing experience among the North Coast redwoods, and with support from the Federation of Women's Clubs and individual donors, the League raised money to purchase and protect ancient coast redwood groves. Since then, the League has saved over 200,000 acres of California's redwood forest for the public to enjoy. Grant and Osborn were important leaders and fundraisers for redwoods conservation, but they also took part in eugenics, a racist social and political movement that promoted the biological superiority of a "white race" over other groups. Their legacy ties early redwood preservation to white supremacy even as their conservation work helped protect these forests, and today all visitors are welcome to experience these redwoods.