Nestled within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) moderate hiking trail that offers an immersive experience in old-growth redwood forests. Starting ...

We can’t have all three. Not in equal measure. Right now, trees are slowly losing. But with sufficient incentives in place, ...

Summer has its own rhythm — and for those of you who, like me, love mountain biking, the outdoors, and great local music, Scotts Valley is serving up all three and more on one big community ...

But often those sounds are drawn from a limited set of online libraries, which get repetitive. Companies making mental health ...

Lou Ellyn Jones stood beneath the outstretched branches of a Western redcedar in the corner of her backyard in northeast Olympia, recounting the peace it brought her during the COVID-19 pandemic.

When Palo Alto passed an ambitious tree-protection law in 2022, its aim was to shield the city’s treasured canopy from destruction ... the valley oak and the coast redwood.

From breaking ground on new playgrounds to restoring an eroding creek, there is lots being done to make nature more accessible on the Peninsula in the year to come.

Butano State Park in Pescadero is California’s ultimate “Is this real life?” experience, hiding just an hour south of San Francisco like the world’s best-kept secret. You know how some places get all ...

When the Kansas legislature selected a state tree it chose the native cottonwood because its presence was synonymous with ...

Letter to the editor.

While its more famous neighbors Big Basin and Big Sur steal the spotlight, Butano (pronounced “BYOO-tuh-noh,” not like the gas for your barbecue) quietly offers a perfect blend of accessibility and ...