The forests constitute a wide range of landscapes with different, often unique, needs for protection, restoration and management.

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

The park has 1,750 acres of old-growth redwood trees. Laura Morton Harsh Mittal shows his nephew, Nirvaan, trees while hiking on the Redwood Grove Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.

This lovely state park encompasses 53,000 acres, including 17,000 acres of old-growth redwood forest, much within easy walking or hiking distance along the 32 mile Avenue of the Giants parkway.

Given Muir Woods’ unique draw, with more than 19 million annual visitors, the retrofitted Ben Johnson Trail is a steep ...

California is down to less than 5 percent of its once-mighty redwood forests. Telling is that the only old-growth forests left in our country are in parks or owned and managed by the federal ...

The 7,472-acre Headwaters Forest Reserve was established by Congress in 1999 after a decade-long grassroots effort to protect the world’s last unprotected, intact, old-growth redwood forest ...

An ongoing study by a Cal Poly Humboldt professor seeks to find whether thinning in Redwood National Park helped local forests weather last year’s Lost Fire, which scorched roughly 800 acres.

On a recent visit to a 1,624-acre parcel of land along the Sonoma County coast, Jeff Stump pointed out a rare old-growth redwood in the area. He estimated its age to be anywhere between 500 to 800 ...