Given Muir Woods' unique draw, with more than 19 million annual visitors, the retrofitted Ben Johnson Trail is a steep ...

Consider this your complete handbook to taking in the world's tallest trees across this four-park destination.

Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — Older trees in an Eastern Oregon forest are perishing “at an alarming rate,” according to ...

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

California is down to less than 5 percent of its once-mighty redwood forests. Telling is that the only old-growth forests left in our country are in parks or owned and managed by the federal ...

This began in old growth redwood forest and has been contained, Patrick Taylor, a program manager for the Redwoods National and State Parks said in an email.

Younger forests have proved an impressive ally too. Recent research suggests that with 150 years of growth, regenerating redwood forests can store 30% as much carbon as their ancestors.

Still, the 75% of redwood lands in corporate hands are an impediment to healing half the forest. Even those certified as sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council are never going to grow old.

This lovely state park encompasses 53,000 acres, including 17,000 acres of old-growth redwood forest, much within easy walking or hiking distance along the 32 mile Avenue of the Giants parkway.

State redwood reserve in Sonoma County one of 16 old growth forests in California part of mapped network of protected forests.