Consider this your complete handbook to taking in the world's tallest trees across this four-park destination.

The forests constitute a wide range of landscapes with different, often unique, needs for protection, restoration and management.

Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

Younger forests have proved an impressive ally too. Recent research suggests that with 150 years of growth, regenerating redwood forests can store 30% as much carbon as their ancestors.

This began in old growth redwood forest and has been contained, Patrick Taylor, a program manager for the Redwoods National and State Parks said in an email.

California is down to less than 5 percent of its once-mighty redwood forests. Telling is that the only old-growth forests left in our country are in parks or owned and managed by the federal ...

Still, the 75% of redwood lands in corporate hands are an impediment to healing half the forest. Even those certified as sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council are never going to grow old.

This lovely state park encompasses 53,000 acres, including 17,000 acres of old-growth redwood forest, much within easy walking or hiking distance along the 32 mile Avenue of the Giants parkway.

The old growth redwood stores more carbon than any other tree, yet, when cut down, it loses its capacity to store carbon. Instead it releases carbon back into the atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

State redwood reserve in Sonoma County one of 16 old growth forests in California part of mapped network of protected forests.