Sonoma County in northern California added over 1,500 acres to Monte Rio Redwoods Regional Park, making the park four times ...

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 ...

For the most part, California's primeval coastal redwood forests are long gone, transformed into Victorian mansions and wainscoting. Only about 5 percent of the virgin stands remain. About 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A new article published in Forest Ecology and Management explores heartwood development in secondary redwood forests distributed across 18 locations representing three distinct regions. The ...

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.

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 ...