While distinctly different, these two trees - along with the third sequoias species, the coast redwood - all evolved from the same group of conifers that occupied the Earth during the Jurassic ...

As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...

Big Basin: Redwood trees’ recovery is ‘remarkable’ three years after huge fire, while some species are still struggling 90% of redwoods are resprouting, some birds are back, but salmon ...

Big Basin: Redwood trees’ recovery is ‘remarkable’ three years after huge fire, while some species are still struggling 90% of redwoods are resprouting, some birds are back, but salmon ...

Retirement should bring relaxation and serenity, so where better than an underrated town in Northern California with easy ...

California’s giant redwood trees are some of the tallest and most impressive trees on the planet. Standing beneath them can feel like looking up at massive wooden skyscrapers. Even more ...

Redwoods take up and store more carbon than any other species of tree, largely because they are the world’s tallest — reaching heights of more than 350 feet — and so long-lived. Some are ...

The law finally caught up Chris Guffie, also known as “The Redwood Bandit,” during the summer of 2005. But his arrest didn’t come easy. Guffie, 42, had been poaching from the redwood trees ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Coast redwoods – enormous, spectacular trees, some reaching nearly 400 feet, the tallest plants on the planet – thrive mostly in a narrow strip of land in the Pacific ...

Are you the owner of a big dawn redwood? It could be eligible for inclusion on the Michigan Big Tree Register. This sequoia species is known to grow up to 140 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter ...

Photos taken in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, about 1 mile from headquarters, in April 2021, left, and Nov. 15, 2023, show the dramatic recovery from the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire.