Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of redwoods as growing only along California's coast, where numerous national and state parks are ...

A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of redwoods as growing only along California's coast, where numerous national and state parks are ...

In the absence of historical documentation, how do scientists measure organismal age? When it comes to the plants we call trees, there are three main techniques.

Towering hundreds of feet high, the Californian redwoods are a stunning natural wonder. Aside from their size, there are some unusual facts about these trees.

The redwood forests remained until 1845, when the first lumber mill was built. Gold and redwood trees soon turned California into the Saudi Arabia of the 19th century, helping it become a state.

Wilderness is a designation of an area intended to be free from human intervention unless it's deemed absolutely necessary. But as climate change increases the frequency and severity of wildfires ...

A recently published multi-year study conducted at Big Basin Redwoods State Park shows that long-stored carbon reserves and ancient, dormant buds within redwood trees allow the plants to recover fa… ...

Understanding the history of redwood, its unique taxonomy, where Sequoia sempervirens grow and the reproductive biology of redwood.