The first time I saw one of the largest trees on Earth was by accident. I took a southern route from the East Coast to Lake Tahoe, stopping for an afternoon in Yosemite's Mariposa Grove. Without ...
As the tallest growing tree in the world, the coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is awe-inspiring and beloved by many. Its iconic dense foliage and textured reddish-brown bark are beautiful to ...
Thousands of giant sequoia seedlings sprouted after a fire swept a grove in the Sierra in 2021. Will they replace the ...
Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton. The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is the ...
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 Taylor, ...
This month, Lathrop Leonard will discuss cooperative redwood forest restoration efforts in a talk titled “Redwoods Rising: A ...
Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia National Park, and it’s celebrating its 135th year on Sept. 25. Here’s a ...