Former President Jimmy Carter once was offered a gift from Northern California: a 9-ton peanut carved from a redwood tree.

As a result, stump sprouting has been key to the survival of the redwoods throughout the logging era. Fourteen stories up a 30-story tree, Humboldt State University scientist Steve Sillett (at ...

But they have been disturbed. Years of logging have left less than 5 percent of the old-growth coastal redwood trees standing, most of them in the protected Redwood National and State Parks.

Especially promising is the idea that because forests absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, timber owners should be paid for the carbon accumulated in their trees. The redwood forest ...

One of the world’s most magnificent forests, the California Redwood belt was a two-million-acre ecosystem containing many of ...

killing tanoaks and jeopardizing the coastal redwood ecosystem.” The logging project would potentially remove many of the largest trees in the area. Northern spotted owls, protected as threatened in ...

In 1924, Laura Mahan protested proposed logging by physically putting herself between the Redwood trees and the logging ...

In one California national park, an awe-inspiring hike through redwood forest is limited to just 50 visitors per day. Here's why the trek is so exclusive.

Rosie Clayburn is a descendant of the Yurok Tribe, which had its territory — called 'O Rew in the Yurok language — ripped from them nearly two centuries ago. "As the natural world became completely ...