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.

Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is a nonprofit dedicated to propagating and planting the world’s champion trees.

These trees are all clones of the parent, and their DNA could be thousands of years old. Redwood cones, oddly enough, are tiny—the size of an olive—and may produce seeds only sporadically.

secret interstices of these trees. Nestled into extensive mats of ferns that grow high up in redwood canopies, researchers find aquatic crustaceans called copepods that normally would live in ...

The seeds stay locked in these closed cones until a fire melts ... “There might be 40 generations of bishop pines in the life of one redwood tree,” Gaman said. “So bishop pines are resilient in that ...

Since the roots do not grow deep, they must spread out wide. The roots may spread out 60 to 80 feet. You will often see clusters of coastal redwood trees. The roots intertwine with one another.

Photo by Gennady Sheyner. After learning that a popular redwood tree on their block is on the chopping block, Mary Cudahy and her neighbors in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood rallied to prevent its ...

The seeds stay locked in these closed cones until ... “There might be 40 generations of bishop pines in the life of one redwood tree,” Gaman said. “So bishop pines are resilient in that ...

All that communication, all that growth comes from the foundation, an interconnected root system that's one system that ...

California’s list of official state symbols could grow even further as two bills ... They are known to have a symbiotic relationship with redwood trees. The slugs eat the plants, competing ...

By selectively cutting trees, forest managers make ... the Lost Fire mostly burned through second-growth redwood forests — vigorously logged forests that grow back after a time — which ...

Explore the ancient art of bonsai at the annual Redwood Empire Bonsai Society Show Aug. 31 and Sept 1. Admission is free to the event, which features quality bonsai displays, demonstrations ...