Google program brings nature into the digital age

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EUREKA, Calif. - Fifty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law to preserve millions of acres of America's natural beauty.

Now, with that same goal in mind, Google has used modern technology to map our ancient lands.

They tower 300 feet into the sky - the length of a football field -- and at almost 2,000 years old, Northern California's Old Growth Redwoods are some of the tallest and oldest living things on Earth.

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