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Press Releases
Press Coverage
Radiolab Podcast: Does redwood trees have more DNA than humans? (Audio)
March 2019
Outside Magazine: How Finding Rare Plants Saved Ynes Mexia’s Life (external Link)
February 2019
Splash Magazines: 2019 Valentines Day Gift Guide – Something For Everyone (external Link)
February 2019
See Monterrey: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Hosts Fun Nighttime Events (external Link)
February 2019
The Willits News: ‘Candelabra’ redwoods part of new Lost Coast Trail in Mendocino County (external Link)
January 2019
Market Watch: 4 great reasons to include charities in your will and how to do it (external Link)
January 2019
Only In Your State: This Ancient American Redwood Forest Is Opening To The Public For The First Time Ever (external Link)
January 2019
Inside Hook:
A mythic redwood forest north of San Francisco is opening to the public (external Link)
January 2019
The Daily Californian: Save the Redwoods League book-launch event offers closer look at California’s forgotten coast redwoods (external Link)
January 2019
North Coast Journal: Grove of Titans Preservation Project Makes $1M Goal (external Link)
January 2019
Real Clear: Majestic Redwood Forest Near San Francisco Will Open to the Public (external Link)
January 2019
MSN Travel: This Ancient Redwood Forest Will Open to the Public for the First Time (external Link)
January 2019
Mother Nature Network: A once-secret redwoods reserve will soon be open to the public (external Link)
January 2019
The Press Democrat:
Save the Redwoods League releases stunning book on 100th anniversary (external Link)
January 2019
KFBK: Funds Needed to Restore ‘Grove of Titans’ (external Link)
January 2019
Mail Tribune: Grove of Titans landed the big bucks (external Link)
January 2019
Outside Online: Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve Is Going Public (external Link)
January 2019
Forbes: How To Include Charities In Your Will To Leave A Legacy (external Link)
December 2018
510 Families: Year-end thanks to all who sponsored {510} Families in 2018 (external Link)
December 2018
SF Gate: Old-Growth Redwood Exhibit Opens (external Link)
December 2018
Claycord: Bay Area’s Redwood Past: New Exhibit Pays Homage To Old-Growth Redwoods Through Conservation And Education (external Link)
December 2018
California Patch: Redwoods In The East Bay: New Park Exhibit (external Link)
December 2018
Informare X Resistere: Questa sequoia sopravvissuta per 2000 anni rischia di morire per i selfie (external Link)
December 2018
Del Norte Triplicate: Deadline looms for Grove of Titans fundraiser (external Link)
December 2018
Eureka Times-Standard: Grove of Titans forest trampled by visitors (external Link)
December 2018
Talk 650 KSTE: Funds Needed to Restore ‘Grove of Titans’ (external Link)
December 2018
KTVU: Fans of California redwood grove race to preserve it (external Link)
December 2018
LA Times: Fans of once-secret California redwood grove race to fund a project to preserve it: Deadline is Dec. 31 (external Link)
December 2018
The Mercury News: Ancient California redwood grove damaged by selfie-seeking visitors to get $3.5 million rescue plan (external Link)
December 2018
SF Chronicle: Fund benefited Point Reyes, many other parks. Congress let it expire (external Link)
December 2018
KTVL: Grove of Titans (Part 3). Oregon Outdoors with Mark Freeman (Video)
December 2018
North Coast Journal: Protecting the Titans (external Link)
December 2018
KGO (ABC 7): Exhibit honoring legacy of old-growth redwood forests unveiled in Oakland (external Link)
December 2018
7×7: 6 Timely Causes to Give Back to This Holiday Season (external Link)
December 2018
KTVL: Grove of Titans (Part 2). Oregon Outdoors with Mark Freeman (Video)
December 2018
KTVL: Grove of Titans. Oregon Outdoors with Mark Freeman (Video)
December 2018
Mail Tribune: Saving the Titans (external Link)
December 2018
NBC Worth the Trip: Get Your Pass to the Final Free Redwoods Saturday (external Link)
December 2018
The Californian: How to hike the redwoods for free this Saturday in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties (external Link)
December 2018
The Mercury News: Final free admission day to California redwood parks is Saturday Dec. 8 (external Link)
December 2018
Bay Area Monitor: Redwoods and Climate Change: The Plots Thicken (external Link)
December 2018
Jefferson Public Radio: Redwood Stewards Join Forces For The “Grove Of Titans” (external Link)
November 2018
East Bay Times: After Thanksgiving, forget the malls, get outdoors instead (external Link)
November 2018
Del Norte Triplicate: On the trail of improvements (external Link)
November 2018
National Parks Traveler: Effort Begins To Save Grove Of Titans At Redwood National And State Park (external Link)
November 2018
Statesman Journal: After being ‘loved to death,’ new trail planned for giant redwood ‘Grove of Titans (external Link)
November 2018
KTUV: $3.5-million trail system planned for California’s ‘Grove of Titans’ redwood forest (external Link)
November 2018
East Bay Times: Alameda students explore nature via innovative PORTS program (external Link)
November 2018
Nob Hill Gazette: Saving the redwoods together (external Link)
November 2018
The Pioneer: Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (external Link)
November 2018
The Union Democrat: Prescribed fire training to begin Nov. 5 in Calaveras County (external Link)
October 2018
KHUM : Interview to League’s Education Manager, Deborah Zierten (Audio)
October 2018
The Daily Californian: 3 county measures on November 2018 ballot to fund community colleges, regional parks (external Link)
October 2018
High Country News: Enter the grandeur of the redwoods (external Link)
October 2018
KCBS Radio: Sam Hodder and John Evans interviewed at the SF Festival (Audio)
October 2018
San Diego Union-Tribune: California’s carbon-credit market often pays for greenhouse gas reductions that would’ve happened anyway (external Link)
October 2018
Sonoma Index-Tribune: Nonprofit offering free day-use admission to more than 100 redwood parks (external Link)
October 2018
North Coast Journal : Redwood National Park’s 100th Anniversary (external Link)
October 2018
Life For Live Music: Bob Weir & Wolf Bros Make Surprise Debut With John Mayer, Mickey Hart At San Francisco Benefit Show (external Link)
October 2018
High Country News: Reckoning with History: When we overcame political division (external Link)
October 2018
Jam Base: Bob Weir & Wolf Bros Debut With Help From John Mayer & Mickey Hart In San Francisco (external Link)
September 2018
Grateful Web: Save the Redwoods League Centennial Celebration Gala Raises Nearly $2 Million (external Link)
October 2018
TheBarginHunter: We must speak up for the big trees in our state forests (external Link)
October 2018
Kern Valley Sun: Digital field trip to sequoias (external Link)
October 2018
KTVU : Free Second Saturdays – October edition (Video)
October 2018
SF Chronicle: Save the Redwoods League celebrates 100 years of forest activism (external Link)
October 2018
SF Gate: Festival Celebrates Centennial Of Save The Redwoods League (external Link)
October 2018
510 Families: Save the date: Stand for the Redwoods Festival (external Link)
October 2018
NBC Bay Area: Free Tree Fest: Stand for the Redwoods (external Link)
October 2018
Red Tricycle: Stand for the Redwoods Festival (external Link)
October 2018
KNSD-TV: Giant Sequoia PORTS Program (external video)
KGO-TV: Save the Redwoods League ‘Stand for the Redwoods’ Festival (external video)
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Plan in place for San Vicente Redwood Property (external Link)
October 2018
Calaveras Enterprise: Calaveras Big Trees State Park – Nature’s classroom: Low income schools visit Big Trees (external Link)
October 2018
LIVE Music Blog: Bob Weir and Wolf Bros Debut in San Francisco, John Mayer & Mickey Hart Sit-in (external Link)
October 2018
North Coast Journal: Happy Birthday, Redwood National Park (external Link)
October 2018
Nob Hill Gazette: My Cause: Celebrating 100 years of saving trees (external Link)
October 2018
The Daily Californian: 3 county measures on November 2018 ballot to fund community colleges, regional parks (external Link)
October 2018
KTVU: Save the Redwoods holding ‘Stand for the Redwoods’ centennial celebration (external Link)
October 2018
The Mercury News: Proposition 3: Smart water plan or costly gift to farmers? (external Link)
October 2018
KGO-TV: Save the Redwoods holding ‘Stand for the Redwoods’ centennial celebration (external Link)
October 2018
East Bay Times: ‘Old Survivor’ film documents Oakland’s last original redwood (external Link)
October 2018
Redwood Times: Redwoods League offers free passes to California parks (external Link)
October 2018
Big Blend Radio: California’s Iconic Redwoods (external Link)
October 2018
Parks & Travel Planner: The Once and Future Forest: California’s Iconic Redwoods (external Link)
October 2018
Weekend Sherpa: Redwoods All to Yourself (external Link)
October 2018
Sunset.com: Get a Free Pass to See One of California’s Grandest Wonders (external Link)
October 2018
KIEM-TV: Coming up this weekend: Stand with Redwoods Festival (external Link)
October 2018
KPIX: Save the Redwoods League Centennial (external video)
510 Families: Visit a giant sequoia forest at school (external Link)
October 2018
Action News Now: Bringing The Outdoors..In! (external video)
Action News Now: California State Parks offers virtual visits (external Link)
September 2018
BakersfieldNow : Digital field trips allow children to learn about California State Parks (external Link)
September 2018
KTVU: San Francisco scientists take an unprecedented look at California’s redwood trees (external video)
KTVU: Visit any one of these 100 redwood California parks for free (external Link)
September 2018
ClimateWire: Unheralded redwood grove features McApin Tree, age 1,640 (external Link)
September 2018
Nob Hill Gazette: Celebrating 100 years of saving trees (external Link)
September 2018
NBC Worth the Trip: Free Tree Fest: Stand for the Redwoods (external Link)
September 2018
Press Democrat: Nonprofit offering free day-use admission to more than 100 redwood parks (external Link)
September 2018
One News Page: California State Parks Introduces New Digital Field Trip (external Link)
September 2018
KCET: The Race to Save the Last Old-Growth Redwood Forests on Earth (external Link)
September 2018
CNN VR: Is DNA the key to protecting Earth’s tallest species?” (external Link)
September 2018
CNN VR – September 2018Eureka Times-Standard: Capitol Tracker: McGuire bills aims to give more time to prosecute for illegal timber conversions to cannabis farms (external link)
August 2018
Ukiah Daily: Bill targeting cannabis growers’ forest impacts awaits Brown’s signature (external link)
August 2018
Fox 6: California wildfire threatens the oldest and tallest juniper tree in the US (external link)
August 2018
Newsweek: Donnell Fire: Latest on Blaze Threatening 2,000-Year-Old Bennett Juniper Tree (external link)
August 2018
The Mercury News: California fire map: 2,000-year-old Bennett Juniper threatened (external link)
August 2018
SF Gate: Treasured 2,000-year-old tree threatened by California wildfire (external link)
August 2018
Eureka Times-Standard: Clarke Museum exhibit delves into the story of Redwood National and State Parks (external link)
August 2018
The Mercury News: Yosemite fire: Flames threaten park’s giant sequoia trees (external link)
July 2018
JustLuxe.com: California’s Mendocino County: redwood forests, wines, steam trains, a glass beach, and more (external link)
July 2018
The Press Democrat: Campouts and cool walks to take this week in Sonoma County (external link)
July 2018
Half Moon Bay Magazine: Clearing The Fog (external link)
July 2018
California Now: Untouched Redwood Grove to Become a Public Park (external link)
July 2018
National Parks Traveler: Redwood National And State Parks Hold Meetings for Prairie Creek Forest and Stream Restoration (external link)
July 2018
San Francisco Chronicle: Should we hide the locations of Earth’s greatest trees? (external link)
July 2018
Sonoma Index-Tribune: Hikes, meditation, competitions at Jack London State Historic Park (external link)
July 2018
CBS News: Mapping the genome of redwoods (external link)
July 2018
Sunset.com: A New Redwoods Reserve Is Opening in Sonoma County in 2021 (external link)
July 2018
Backpacker.com: New Redwood Park Coming to Sonoma Coast (external link)
July 2018
Travelers Today: California Is Turning A Redwood Tree Grove Into A Public Park (external link)
July 2018
CBS SF Bay Area: Scientists Map Old-Growth Redwoods’ Genome to Preserve Future Forests (external link)
July 2018
California Patch: Group Acquires 730 Acres Of Sonoma Old-Growth Redwoods (external link)
June 2018
Lonely Planet: California is getting a new public redwood park (external link)
June 2018
Bay Nature: The Discovery of the Oldest Redwood South of Mendocino Marks a New Era (external link)
June 2018
Palo Alto Weekly: New redwoods reserve to open to the public (external link)
June 2018
AP News: Redwood grove on California coast to become public park (external link)
June 2018
KCBS-AM: Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve (external link)
June 2018
KGO-AM: Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve (external link)
June 2018
SF Chronicle: Family’s legendary grove of old-growth redwoods preserved (external link)
June 2018
The Mercury News & East Bay Times: New California redwood park larger than Muir Woods created on Sonoma Coast (external link)
June 2018
Marin Independent-Journal: ‘Another Muir Woods’: Ancient North Bay redwood forest purchased for park (external link)
June 2018
Times-Standard: New redwoods park larger than Muir Woods (external link)
June 2018
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Save the Redwoods League acquires oldest tree in Sonoma County (external link)
June 2018
KTVU.com: Largest deal to protect old-growth redwood trees in California in 20 years (external link)
June 2018
PR Newswire: Largest Old-Growth Coast Redwood Forest in Private Hands Now Permanently Protected by Save the Redwoods League (external link)
June 2018
The Mercury News: Butler: The afterglow of giving burns brighter with a tax deduction (external link)
June 2018
The Sonoma Index-Tribune: Outdoors: Hiking in Sonoma Valley, June 15-30 (external link)
June 2018
Eureka Times Standard: A free year of ‘forest bathing’ (external link)
June 2018
The Mercury News: Election 2018: Environmental measures were big winners in California, Bay Area races (external link)
June 2018
Daily Democrat: Environmental causes boosted by statewide election (external link)
June 2018
KCBS: Red Hill Grove: Interview with Sam Hodder (external link)
May 2018
KQED: Red Hill Grove (external link)
May 2018
The Mercury News: Taller than Niagara Falls: Giant sequoia forest preserved in landmark conservation deal (external link)
May 2018
KTVU: San Francisco redwood conservationists fundraising to protect 1,000-year-old California sequoias (external link)
May 2018
Redwood Times: 2018 declared the Year of the Redwoods (external link)
May 2018
Eureka Times Standard: Capitol Tracker: McGuire bills aims to give more time to prosecute for illegal timber conversions to cannabis farms (external link)
May 2018
World Itineraries: Celebrating its Centennial, ‘Save the Redwoods League’ embraces protection plan for the ancient giants (external link)
May 2018
Via Magazine:
Must-Visit Wild and Quiet National Parks (external link)
May 2018
Eureka Times-Standard: Redwoods Parks make pact with group to restore old growth in Humboldt, Del Norte (external link)
April 2018
Del Norte Triplicate: Groups partner to save the redwoods (external link)
April 2018
KIEM (NBC 3): New partnership and funding aimed towards rising the redwoods (external link)
April 2018
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: California’s towering redwoods face uncertain future, report says (external link)
April 2018
Johns Hopkins Health Review: Reading the Trees (external link)
April 2018
KTVU.com: New redwood park set to open in Silicon Valley (external link)
April 2018
KGO (ABC 7): Save the Redwoods League president discusses SF Earth Day event (external link)
April 2018
KRON 4: San Francisco celebrates Earth Day early (external link)
April 2018
The Mercury News & East Bay Times: Bay Area Earth Day Events for 2018 (external link)
April 2018
FunCheapSF: San Francisco Earth Day 2018 Festival & Climate Rally | Civic Center (external link)
April 2018
STEPin2: Come join us and celebrate Earth Day San Francisco 2018 (external link)
April 2018
This Is My Happiness blog: What to do in Northern California in April (external link)
April 2018
(FYI) Outdoor Industry Association: 2,802 MILES OF TRAIL TO BE IMPROVED ON NATIONAL TRAILS DAY® (external link)
April 2018
KTVU: San Francisco scientists take an unprecedented look at California’s redwood trees (external link)
April 2018
KPIX: How Logging Could Help Save California’s Redwood Forests (external link)
April 2018
KRCR: Gov. agencies unite to ‘bring back ancient Redwood forest on the North Coast’ (external link)
April 2018
Redwood Times: New idea takes root to save old-growth redwoods: Losing smaller trees could help to save grand old ones (external link)
April 2018
East Bay Times: Environmentalist plan to thin 10,000 acres of trees in Northern California’s old-growth redwood forests (external link)
April 2018
Marin Independent Journal: Report sounds alarm for Marin’s old redwoods (external link)
April 2018
KGO-TV: Save the Redwoods League president discusses SF Earth Day event (external link)
April 2018
KQED Forum: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Report Says Thinning Forests Key to Saving Redwoods (external link)
April 2018
San Francisco Chronicle: A plea to save California’s treasured coast redwoods, giant sequoias (external link)
April 2018
Los Angeles Times: Happy Earth Day! Five redwood parks you’ve never heard of — and why you should go (external link)
April 2018
Greenwire: To save Calif. redwoods, enviros plan to give logging a try (external link)
April 2018
Berkeleyside: The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley, weekend of April 20-22 (external link)
April 2018
Daily Democrat: Logging idea takes root to save venerable redwood trees (external link)
April 2018
KRCR: Gov. agencies unite to ‘bring back ancient Redwood forest on the North Coast’ (external link)
April 2018
All things ARB: San Francisco scientists take an unprecedented look at California’s redwood trees (external link)
April 2018
The Mercury News: Environmentalists plan logging to restore California’s redwood forests (external link)
April 2018
CBS SF Bay Area: How Logging Could Help Save California’s Redwood Forests (external link)
April 2018
KTVU: San Francisco scientists take an unprecedented look at California’s redwood trees (external link)
April 2018
San Francisco Chronicle: The 5 best spots around Santa Cruz to see redwoods (external link)
April 2018
MelindaMyers.com: Take a Hike Through the Redwoods – Save the Redwoods Celebrates 100 Years (external link)
April 2018
MelindaMyers.com: Reading the Redwoods Contest (external link)
April 2018
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- The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods by Reed F. Noss