Imagine walking through a forest that has stood for thousands of years—giant sequoias towering above, sunlight streaming ...

Nestled within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) moderate hiking trail that offers an immersive experience in old-growth redwood forests. Starting ...

Those bombs added what’s called radiocarbon to the atmosphere, and the incorporation of that radiocarbon into plant tissues allows us to track the age of sugars through long-lived trees. This has ...

Science Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves Two recent studies find that sequoia groves burned in megafires of 2020 and 2021 were so severely damaged that the world ...

In two comprehensive giant sequoia regeneration studies, announced today by the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center found ...

The team was unsure whether the redwood trees could survive a disastrous forest fire that could burn all the way up to the tree canopies, Peltier said. Such extreme weather events could become ...

A recently published multi-year study conducted at Big Basin Redwoods State Park shows that long-stored carbon reserves and ancient, dormant buds within redwood trees allow the plants to recover fa… ...