The Methuselah Trail, located in Inyo National Forest near Big Pine, California, was recently named one of the best hikes in ...

Half the state’s big trees have been lost since the 1930s, in part because climate change has cut their water supply.

If you thought the ancient evergreens at California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park were old, the state's bristlecone pines ...

Redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth. Now, work is beginning to restore these forests that once stretched across coastal Northern California.

One of the starkest declines in forest cover was observed in Southern California, where 14 percent of the tree population in local mountains vanished, potentially permanently.

A recent federal survey found that California lost more than 36 million trees just in the last year. The large-scale die-off is alarming ecologists and policymakers.

With the various plantings, and the campaign in the 1970s to revegetate Southern California’s mountain forests with giant sequoia, it’s likely there are many more individual trees and groves ...

The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts dispute whether revoking the two-decade-old rule would help prevent ...

Somewhat hidden inside the vastness of the Tahoe National Forest, six giants of the forest reside in California's northernmost grove of Sequoia trees in the Placer County Big Tree Grove.

Pick a tree. Any colossal tree. Ballard forest ecologist Robert Van Pelt, known as Big Tree Bob, probably can identify it immediately, and tell you its story.