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 ...

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.

Save the Redwoods League paid $24.7 million to buy a conservation easement over the sweeping Mailliard Ranch, located about 80 miles north of San Francisco in Mendocino County.

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.

Here in the Redwood Empire with our abundance of redwood trees, it might be hard to understand the attachment to one tree tearing a neighborhood apart but that's what's happening in San Francisco.

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 ...