The coast redwood is the world’s tallest tree, and its genome is among the most complex sequenced. Nearly nine times larger than the human genome, it is also the second largest genome sequenced.
Scientific American video surveys damage at Alder Creek
The League has negotiated an agreement to buy the ecologically and culturally significant coastal landscape from timberland owner Soper Company. The nonprofit must raise $36.9 million by December 31 to fund the purchase and secure a total of $43.4 million to support the stewardship of the property as part of the protected mosaic of California’s famed Lost Coast.
The on-the-ground work of Redwoods Rising is complex, but these five illustrations sum it up.
According to data compiled by the Giant Sequoia Coalition, 28 giant sequoia groves experienced fire from the 2021 KNP Complex and Windy fires, and these fires killed up to 5% of world’s giant sequoia that are at least four feet in diameter. When combined with estimates that as much as 14% of the world’s monarchs were killed in the 2020 Castle Fire, the numbers paint a grim future for these natural treasures unless immediate action is taken.
Everyone who has ever walked among the coast redwoods and giant sequoia remembers the first time they saw these incredible forests.
Four Bay Area-based nonprofit organizations will commemorate 10 years of collaborative conservation and restoration of the property.
First visit to Red Hill following Windy Fire confirms loss of giant sequoia
Take Me to the Trees
Fern mats create whole ecosystems high in the redwood canopy.
Infographic shows why we’re losing giant sequoia to fire and how to prevent it
Online map enables you to track the progress of California wildfire, which shows the proximity of the fires to the giant sequoia groves.
Even though so much has been written about the fires of 2020—particularly in this space —it is still hard to remember clearly what it was like to live in California during that time. Part of this is because so much has …
Secretary of the Interior Deb Halland toured Redwoods Rising.
Cameras will document forest recovery at Big Basin Redwoods State Park
The best travel tips for visiting Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Save the Redwoods League joins the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition
Joanna Nelson, Ph.D., has been named director of science and conservation planning. This is a key staff position for the League, one of the nation’s first science-based conservation organizations. The League relies on high-quality scientific research to inform its protection and restoration of the coast redwood and giant sequoia ecosystems.
Save the Redwoods League released new drought severity maps that show most of the coast redwood and giant sequoia forests—the world’s tallest and largest trees—are experiencing extreme to exceptional drought conditions. These are potentially dangerous, dry conditions for these iconic forests.
Sempervirens Fund announced today that they have secured approvals and critical post-fire funding to remove a dam from Mill Creek. CEMEX, the former owner of what is now San Vicente Redwoods, retains water and infrastructure rights on the property, and approved the dam removal. Deconstruction will begin later this summer.
