Late afternoon sunlight illuminates the base of a coast redwood along the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.

What: Sequoia sempervirens, aka coast redwood, is clearly at the top end of the size scale. The tallest living organisms on the planet, trees of this species are known to add nearly 3 feet or more ...

Stretching along California’s North Coast, the largest surviving block of old-growth redwood forest on Earth juts into the sky. California's coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) can grow more ...

California's coastal redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens, are the tallest trees on earth.But measuring their precise dimensions—which is key to determining how much climate-altering carbon they store ...

Sequoia is a genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing the single living species Sequoia sempervirens. Common names include Coast Redwood and California Redwood. It is an evergreen ...

Sequoia sempervirens, or the coast redwood, thrives in the damp climate along the Pacific Ocean. Some are more than 2,000 years old, and the tallest can reach 380 feet.

Sequoia sempervirens is the botanical name of the redwood or coast redwood, while Sequoiadendron giganteum is the botanical name of the giant sequoia. Redwoods grow in a strip from the central ...

Still, the gargantuan tree — a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) that was technically “discovered” by two amateur naturalists in 2006 — is officially off-limits to visitors even though ...

Giant sequoias, officially called Sequoiadendron giganteum, are the largest trees on Earth by volume. The biggest sequoia stands 275 feet tall, with a diameter of 36 feet at its base. Don’t ...