SCOTIA, Calif. — Beneath the gnarled green-needle boughs of the California North Coast redwoods, a remarkable encounter one recent day shook the roots of the forest’s fiercest struggle.

A few groves of the trees' ancient empire stretches into Oregon as well. Here are my five favorite redwood trails, ... The largest redwood, Stout Tree, is 340 feet tall and 16 feet in diameter.

"In tall redwoods its not light that drives leaf anatomy and morphology, but rather a height-associated increase in water stress due to the force of gravity pulling down on the water column as it ...

A biologist studies the Heart of Poseidon, a large, heart-shaped fern mat that grows in the canopy of the 224-foot-tall Poseidon Tree—an estimated 600 to 800 years old—in Redwood National and ...

It’s hard to describe a place like Redwood National and State Parks. “We struggle with this on a daily basis, how to convey the feeling of it, because it's not just the math,” said Patrick ...

Redwood sprouts, on Friday May 3, 2013, began to grow into massive trees after the old growth groves were cut down in what is now Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, Calif.

Redwoods are so large that one reportedly was found to house a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 8 feet tall, growing far off the ground within the larger tree. Redwoods also have served for ...

The beautiful redwoods of Big Basin State Park may never be the same, but they still stand tall and are regrowing after the CZU Lightning Complex fires of 2020. What researchers wanted to know was ...

The idea that human beings could plant trees that grow more than 300 feet tall and live for 3,000 years sounds far fetched. Nature does that sorta stuff, not us. Unfortunately, things have reached ...

The idea that human beings could plant trees that grow more than 300 feet tall and live for 3,000 years sounds far fetched. Nature does that sorta stuff, not us. Unfortunately, things have reached ...