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Around 1850, men with axes began cutting down California’s redwoods, the first step in a process that turned the giant trees ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Coastal redwoods and giant sequoia are iconic symbols of California. The species have endured major ecological changes from logging, development and political threats over the ...

Now many redwood forests — including 80% of the surviving old-growth trees — are protected either by state and local governments or nonprofits, like Zierten’s Save the Redwoods League. New challenges.

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

Redwood sprouts, on Friday May 3, 2013, began to grow into massive trees after the old growth groves were cut down in what is now Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, Calif.

It may be a tall order to lure high-rise tenants to Downtown San Francisco with a stand of redwood trees. Yet that’s what Texas-based Hines plans for its block-size development of homes and ...

Marvel at the redwood trees of Muir Woods National Monument is ranked #16 out of 30 things to do in San Francisco. See pictures and our review of Marvel at the redwood trees of Muir Woods National ...

And redwoods in populated areas have not been immune: Last week, a 2-year-old boy was killed when a redwood tree fell on a mobile home in Occidental, Calif., about 65 miles north of San Francisco.