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

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

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

Only 5% of California's redwood forests have never been logged. ... there are big trees — impossibly big — standing about on the sides of small valleys and in their bowls.

Many of California's trees, its pines, oaks and especially firs, are dying. A recent survey of the state's forests found more than 36 million trees died in the last couple of years. NPR's Nathan ...

Researchers used LANDSAT satellite data to document how tree-cover changed in California from 1985 to 2021, being shrunk by wildfires, logging, and droughts.

In the early 1900s, the U.S. Forest Service realized the resilient nature of the sequoias, and they began considering them as a robust alternative to trees in other California climates.

The declaration could have big implications for California’s forests, some of which haven’t seen commercial-scale logging in decades. In the popular Angeles National Forest, which encompasses ...

But the toppled trees and snapped branches are more of a problem for people than for the forests. “Generally rain — big storms — is a good thing for redwoods,” said Ben Blom, director of ...