Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a wonderful evergreen species, with mature trees commonly reaching 300 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. (Giant sequoia is even larger and is a different species.) ...

As James Michael Buckley recounts in “City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry,” the ...

Gazos Creek redwood forest, near the San Mateo-Santa Cruz County line, on March 15, 2019. (Photo: Big Creek Lumber / Peninsula Open Space Trust) The deal is part of a growing trend in California ...

From a Green Diamond Resource Company press release: Douglas Reed, president of Green Diamond Resource Company, today announced that its subsidiary, California Redwood Company (CRC), will ...

The way redwood and many other types of lumber were milled for years produced boards that had parallel faces on each piece of lumber. While this seemed like a good idea at the time, it turns out ...

The storied Pacific Lumber Co. will begin a new history as the Humboldt Redwood Co. today, after decades of troubled times and a dramatic rescue by a competitor. The Mendocino Redwood Co. has ...

That decimation started when miners rushed in for gold, killing and displacing tens of thousands of Native Americans in California and ravaging the redwood trees for lumber. "Everything was ...

Redwood groves, a creek ... the Laurel Mill Lodge property was a hub for lumber processing operations as well as a railway line and train stop to serve the mill and train passengers, part of ...

Heralded by the Healdsburg Enterprise newspaper, the bridge was to be constructed of more than 2.5 million board feet of redwood lumber “more enduring than stone.” When completed, the elevated ...

Rotarians Ernie Head and Hal Sconyers built seven new picnic tables and benches for the grove using old redwood lumber salvaged from a campus bridge. In addition, more than 100 volunteers planted some ...

A new chronicle of redwood logging exposes how a cadre of wealthy industrialists reaped a fortune in the name of environmentalism. If handled poorly, a history of the so-called Redwood Wars ...