Behrman: You’re listening to the sound of a redwood forest after a wildfire. It’s eerily quiet—save for the sound of our own footsteps. Goodwin: We recorded those sounds in the spring of 2021.

One of the trees that populated the forests was the Great American Chestnut. Called “the king of the forest,” in some cases its size competed with that of the California Redwood.

For a named grove in an old-growth forest, $250,000 is the donation minimum. Minimum gift amounts drop as low as $35,000 for a small, unsigned grove in a young or recovering forest.

The redwood forest is in fact just the anchor of an enormous forest, the temperate rainforest that occupies the North American coast from California to the Alaskan islands, an unbroken blanket of ...

The unique status of American steam trains can only be matched by the nation’s ancient redwood forests – another important piece of heritage. At first, however, steam trains were the “enemy ...