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 ...

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 ...

The biggest sequoia stands 275 feet tall, with a diameter of 36 feet at its base. Don’t confuse them with coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens), which are the tallest trees on the planet.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California's coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) can grow more than 300 feet tall and live upwards of 2,000 years. They owe their mammoth size and long lives to polyphenol-rich bark and ...

Yes, you can grow redwood and sequoia trees in Southern California. Rick Akers, who lives in Long Beach, has mature specimens that prove the point. “I planted both from seedlings I procured at ...

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.