Two types of iconic sequoia trees have grown tall and strong in a surprising place: Michigan. One was believed to be extinct less than 100 years ago. The other is the largest living thing on Earth.

A tree species once thought to be extinct is thriving in Michigan. The dawn redwood was rediscovered in the 1940s. Since then, dozens – perhaps even hundreds – have been planted throughout ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

EDMONDS—Not long ago, cutting a tree down in Edmonds could result in a forest’s worth of paperwork. But in December, the ...