A group of tree lovers 125 years ago gathered beneath the leafy canopies of a grove of giant redwood trees in the Santa Cruz ...

Yet as soon as a dominant tree falls or is cut down, breaking the canopy and allowing new light to enter the forest, the suppressed redwood springs up with new growth—a phenomenon known as release.

Some of California's redwood trees have been growing for thousands of ... initiative that would greatly reduce the number of trees in the iconic forest. A single cut tree could be worth $150,000 (over ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...

A plaque at the grove says that in 1970 a bank gave away redwood seedlings to people opening ... Coastal redwoods are the tallest trees on earth and can live to be more than 2,000 years old ...