His discovery of this enormous tree made the redwood popular to loggers. Roads were constructed for harvest access. Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), also called coastal redwood or California ...

It's that resiliency that makes sequoias and their taller coastal redwood cousin ... where a 15-foot diameter sequoia that is the world's biggest planted tree took root in 1850.

Just up the coast in Eureka, California’s oldest zoo, Sequoia Park Zoo, is a greenhorn in the giant Christmas tree game. This year, the zoo decorated a towering coastal redwood — standing at ...

The banyan tree ... coastal redwood can thrive with 25 to 122 inches of rainfall, the frequent local summer fog essentially reduces the trees' loss of water through evaporation. Giant sequoia ...

Researchers have held both these effects among others responsible for discouraging the growth of plants of many tree species in coastal areas. But a new study by researchers at Drexel University ...

The past few years had been particularly rough for Visalia’s Sequoia Legacy Tree. A pattern of heavy winters and dry summers left the nearly 90-year-old tree susceptible to a particular type of ...

And you might be able to have one. Northern Michigan is home to the largest known giant sequoia tree east of the Rocky Mountains. Planted in 1948, the Michigan Champion giant sequoia is 116 feet ...