"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 ...

In the summer months, when there’s a lack of rainfall, redwood trees rely on another iconic California phenomenon: coastal fog. “It’s almost like a sponge sucking in that water,” Zierten said. “Then ...

The California redwood forests, once heavily logged ... The California redwoods are a rainforest, born of wet feet and fog-shrouded crowns, the array of branches and needlelike leaves at the ...

It’s hard to describe a place like Redwood National and State Parks ... they get a lot of the moisture they need in the summer months from fog, not just from the ground.

It is a scraggly runt of a redwood - estimated at 93 feet tall ... almost directly in line with the fog bank that streams through the Golden Gate. The giant redwoods in what is now Roberts ...

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 ...