Five years after a megafire scorched Big Basin Redwoods State Park, not only are the forests rebounding, but California State Parks has big plans for rebuilding the park’s infrastructure.
Yurok crews plant native species to create a thriving redwood and salmon habitat at the southern gateway to Redwood National and State Parks.
San Francisco, with its glittering high-rises and autonomous cars, sometimes feels like a future world—a frenetic twin to the nearby tech mecca of Silicon Valley. But between these two modern hubs lies the Peninsula, a verdant rise of coastal mountains and forests that divides the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay from the wide-open Pacific Ocean. There’s so much to explore here.
Steve Mietz, Save the Redwood League’s new president and CEO, has had a couple months to get his boots underneath him (and a bit muddy). Now that he’s settled, we sat down to talk about what brought him to the …
Trees don’t typically do a whole lot of traveling. You might even say they spend their entire lives rooted to the exact same spot. But earlier this spring, Save the Redwoods League was on hand to help plant a dozen …
The Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition made great progress in 2024 restoring sequoia groves and safeguarding them from future wildfires.
Researcher Alana Chin looks at redwood leaf shoots up close to learn how their parent trees might adapt to changing weather patterns.
