The redwood forests all saw stunted growth around the year 1580, she said. In the last few decades the tree growth accelerated. Scientists initially estimated Tree 76, the tallest in Muir Woods at ...

California's Redwood National Park is known for its outsized trees, which spread across 40,000 acres of old-growth forest. Many individual trees have been named and have gained celebrity-like status.

A redwood tree discovered in a remote California forest has turned out to be the world’s tallest tree, edging out one nearby that had been the previous titleholder, a botanist said Friday ...

For example, being declared the world’s tallest tree in a redwood forest is a little like temporarily winning a glacially slow race. Hyperion is estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old ...

Tallest Tree. Chronicle Graphic Researchers have confirmed that a 379.1-foot tree in Redwood National and State Parks is the world's tallest -- a foot higher, even, than originally thought.

Roughly 95% of all redwoods were cut down for industrial logging in the 1800s and 1900s, but the few that remain still rank as some of the tallest organisms on Earth.

REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – A redwood in a remote Northern California coastal forest has been tentatively measured as the world's tallest living thing. The tree, called Hyperion, stands at ...

Redwood National and State Parks closed the off-trail section of California forest where Hyperion lives. ... Want to see the world’s tallest tree? You could get fined $5,000.

Hyperion, the world's tallest living tree, has suffered as hikers in California's Redwood National Park damaged its habitat. Now, prospective visitors face a $5,000 fine and six months in jail.

The United States is home to the world's tallest tree: the redwood. These trees are a little too tall for you to climb, though. They can grow to be more than 300 feet tall and can live to be 2,000 ...

Hyperion, the tallest tree on Earth, a baby by coast redwood standards at somewhere between 600 and 800 years old has still had a remarkably long life. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Anyone who gets too close to Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world, at Redwoods National and State Parks in California, could face six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.