"We had a hunch that the fog was changing, but we didn't really know how," said Todd Dawson, a plant ecology professor at U.C. Berkeley. We spoke in a grove of redwood trees outside Dawson's ...

“Fog is a big water subsidy,” Dr. Dawson said. “And I said, ‘My goodness, we’re ignoring this. We’ve been missing a big part of the hydrologic budget of the redwood forest.’ ...

Among the largest fog-dependent creatures he’s investigated, the giant sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, is a water lover, with each tree drinking as much as 160 gallons a day. Studies ...

The fog belt creates the ideal habitat for these ... there is a small pocket of redwood forest located about 10 miles into southern Oregon. This tiny footprint makes the coast redwood the rarest ...

When to go: Redwood is a year-round destination with weather that can be cool, windy, and rainy in any season. Summers are warmer and drier, but fog can creep in from the Pacific. The other three ...

“The thing to keep in mind is the redwood is a coastal plant that relies on water from fog, it requires 50 to 100 inches of rainfall per year and we don’t get that in the valley. We don’t ...