The executive action weakens environmental review and public input in favor of industrial-scale tree cutting—despite science ...

As a result, stump sprouting has been key to the survival of the redwoods throughout the logging era. Fourteen stories up a 30-story tree, Humboldt State University scientist Steve Sillett (at ...

But they have been disturbed. Years of logging have left less than 5 percent of the old-growth coastal redwood trees standing, most of them in the protected Redwood National and State Parks.

A group of tree lovers 125 years ago gathered beneath the leafy canopies of a grove of giant redwood trees in the Santa Cruz ...

Especially promising is the idea that because forests absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, timber owners should be paid for the carbon accumulated in their trees. The redwood forest ...

Julia "Butterfly" Hill began participating in a tree sit, which lasted for 738 days. This Earth Day, we look back at her ...

California’s giant redwood trees are some of the tallest and most ... large tracts of redwood forests to protect them from logging. Over time, more parks and reserves were established, ensuring ...

Redwood is based on the story of Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a redwood tree for 738 days to prevent a logging company from chopping it down. In the play, Menzel’s character Jesse ...

Idina Menzel, the Tony Award–winning actress and singer who currently stars in the Broadway musical Redwood, sat down with ...