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

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than 250 ft. tall, with a circumference greater than 90 ft. at their base. The oldest have seen more than 3,000 years.

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

“Gesundheit,” I said. David Quammen’s new book, Spillover, is about zoonotic diseases. Michael Nichols photographed California’s giant redwoods for the October 2009 issue.

(THE CONVERSATION) Coast redwoods – enormous ... Most of them grow from southern Oregon down into northern California, snugged up against the rugged Pacific coast. They have grown by slowly ...

birds and frogs from a logging project in a redwood forest near Northern California’s Gualala River. Today’s action by the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of Gualala River seeks a court ...

It was offered to Carter amid a protest by loggers angry and anxious about his administration’s plans to expand Redwood National Park along California’s northern coast and eliminate their jobs.