Nestled within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) moderate hiking trail that offers an immersive experience in old-growth redwood forests. Starting ...

FORKS, Wash. — In Kalaloch, on the Washington coast, people from all over the world come to stand in wonder and take pictures ...

Isotopes, dinosaurs, and the redwood in the ravine Isotopes are forms of an element that vary ever so slightly in their number of neutrons, leaving what you might call chemical fingerprints.

Tree root systems are seldom on the minds of forest owners, tree planters, and general dendrophiles. Roots are rarely exposed, and so misconceptions about how they grow and function can influence ...

Instead, it’s a little more complicated, the timing more coincidental. The No. 5 fairway, where the tree has towered for decades, sits low and in the drainage path for about 75 surrounding acres.

Its fruit are inedible. When dried, the mature fruit’s hard shells can be made into musical instruments and other receptacles. The tree is grown in local parks and gardens as an ornamental plant.

Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ancient redwoods and destroying all the campgrounds, the visitors center ...

CHARLOTTE — Every tree has a life cycle, and when a tree is nearing its end, it’s particularly vulnerable to severe weather. City Arborist Laurie Reid said they can’t catch them all, but the ...

California's drought state of emergency may have officially ended in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties at the end of 2024 following two wet winters that led to improved water conditions, but trees in ...

Naomi Beary of Berkeley poses by a fallen redwood tree on a visit to Big Basin Redwoods State Park with her friend, Toad Sappington of Oakland, left, on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Stretching from Richmond to Castro Valley, the nearly 60-year-old East Bay Skyline Trail covers over 30 miles of some of the ...