Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

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.

Decades after being struck by lightning, a large dawn redwood stands tall and proud at Michigan State University, serving an example of a species once believed to be extinct. About a decade after the ...

Trees grow tall and wide-crowned as a measure of ... Michael Nichols photographed California’s giant redwoods for the October 2009 issue.

The dawn redwood can grow to 140 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter, according to NPS. Compare that to the giant sequoia at 314 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, and the coast redwood at 379 feet ...

While considered the smallest of the three redwood varieties, dawn redwoods typically grow between 50 and 60 feet tall, but can reach more than 160 feet with a trunk about 7 feet in diameter.