When producers of the upcoming science fiction movie “After Earth” wanted to create an image of what the planet might look like 1,000 years in the future, location manager Dow Griffith knew ...

"A vital part of our region's ecological health." Advocates celebrate as critical redwood park expands by 1,500 acres: ...

A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws. The California redwood forests, once heavily logged ...

ORICK, Calif. – In what was once an old growth redwood forest that was heavily logged in 1968, a National Park Service forester points to an unruly tangle of spindly trees, 900 to the acre and ...

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.

They include $8.15 million from Save the Redwoods League donors, $4.75 million in state parks and water bonds from Proposition 84, and $4.3 million from the U.S. Forest Service. The family donated ...

Redwoods also don't live by themselves in the forest. They're a home to endangered birds like the marbled murrelet , and they're surrounded by other trees like Douglas firs that lack a redwood's ...

For 150 years, they’ve been a mystery: white trees in the middle of deep green California redwood forests. Scientists know that albino redwoods are genetic mutations that attach themselves to ...

The final tally: 95% of California's original Redwood forest was logged, wiped clean, leaving only giant stumps as reminders of what had stood here for so long.