Redwood trees aren’t the only endangered species in the forest. The land is also home to coho salmon, steelhead trout, marbled murrelets (a small seabird) and northern spotted owls — all ...

Nonetheless, California did offer something of value not available anywhere else — ancient redwood groves where some trees reach nearly 380 feet and are more than 20 feet in diameter.

A centuries-old California redwood forest that has beaten the odds of one day become lumber is being returned to a group of 10 Native American tribes whose ancestors once walked the land.

A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws. The California redwood forests, once heavily logged ...

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.

Redwoods also don't live by themselves in the forest. They're a home to endangered birds like the marbled murrelet , and they're surrounded by other trees like Douglas firs that lack a redwood's ...

They include $8.15 million from Save the Redwoods League donors, $4.75 million in state parks and water bonds from Proposition 84, and $4.3 million from the U.S. Forest Service. The family donated ...

The redwoods' roots dig into dark soil that ripples, ... The winter experience will be more skeletal, as if the redwood forest had burned. When the exhibition closes in the spring of 2018, ...

The redwood canyon at Blake Garden has 100-year-old trees that were brought in young from St. Helena. (John Metcalfe/Bay Area News Group) Blake Garden , Kensington ...

About a third of the science fiction movie starring Will Smith and his son, Jaden, was filmed in Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California. Ancient redwood forests evoke look of future ...