Towering hundreds of feet high, the Californian redwoods are a stunning natural wonder. Aside from their size, there are some ...

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than 250 ft. tall, with a circumference greater than 90 ft. at their base. The oldest have seen more than 3,000 years.

About a year ago in this space, I wrote about a fascinating tree — the bald cypress, Taxodium distichum — that was unique in that it is a conifer that is deciduous rather than evergreen.

That decimation started when miners rushed in for gold, killing and displacing tens of thousands of Native Americans in California and ravaging the redwood trees for lumber. "Everything was ...

No redwood road trip is complete without driving down Avenue of the Giants. For about 30 miles you will pass redwood after redwood.

The state park, California's oldest, is also the largest stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco. It was 97% burned in 2020, when the CZU Lightning Complex fire erupted in the Santa ...

A husband-and-wife team works to restore Willits' historic Noyo Theater, overcoming financial challenges and preserving its legacy.

One of the world’s most magnificent forests, the California Redwood belt was a two-million-acre ecosystem containing many of ...

Ask a nature enthusiast in California ... value. Redwood trees, in particular, were valued for their timber — not for their towering beauty or environmental importance. That began to change ...