By Amanda Holpuch When the rain is relentless and the wind is ferocious, there are plenty of imperiled things for Californians to worry about. The state’s iconic redwood forests are not among them.

Fog is an important source of water to ecosystems around the world, because fog allows plants to stay hydrated even during times without rain ... on the forest floor in the redwood forest because ...

The fern gardens in old redwood crowns are second only to Olympic Peninsula rain forests in their density ... look at the 25th floor of a skyscraper: That's about where the first solid branches ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Beneath California’s iconic towering redwoods, ferns carpet the forest floor. The Western sword fern is the most common plant in the coastal redwood ... how much rain and fog ...

Fog is an important source of water to ecosystems around the world, because fog allows plants to stay hydrated even during times without rain ... on the forest floor in the redwood forest because ...

They eat animal droppings, leaves and other detritus on the forest floor, and then generate waste that ... This slug was found in Henry Cowell Redwood State Park after a day of rain. Slime refers to ...

Deputy Superintendent of the Redwood National and State Parks. The trees are thinner, the canopy is shorter and there’s a lot of bare ground on the forest floor. “The ambient conditions are not as ...

It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden ... So does this northern jewel of a forest, “our lungs,” our coastal temperate rain forest. Our Amazon. It is a fight that matters.

But there was something about having it all to myself, in the middle of a striking redwood forest and during a break in the pouring rain, that made it unforgettable. I was inspired to hike the ...