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This is a place for personal insights into our work by Save the Redwoods League leaders. You can explore posts by category: It Takes a Forest SM focuses on League project and program updates; Off the Beaten Path gets you into the redwood forest; Redwoods Futures illuminates the issues affecting our redwood forests; and The Eighth Wonders explores the art, education, and science of the redwood forests. Please join the conversation by posting your stories and comments.

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Video: Oakland students explore fascinating link between redwoods and the bay

by Deborah Zierten on June 24, 2022

Explore Your Watershed gives Oakland students a chance to explore nature.


Alder Creek post SQF fire

Bipartisan legislation introduced to save giant sequoias 

by Save the Redwoods League on June 23, 2022

New legislation would provide much-needed help for giant sequoias.


A woman stands in a forest looking up at the trees.

Two historic projects

by Sam Hodder on June 16, 2022

We celebrate the success of the Forever Forest Campaign and historic projects on the Lost Coast that restored Indigenous guardianship to Tcih-Léh-Dûñ and protected the spectacular Lost Coast Redwoods.


A black and white historical photograph of Laura Perrott Mahan, a white woman with dark, curly hair in a dark victorian-era dress

A family tree takes root in conservation

by Save the Redwoods League on June 16, 2022

A pioneering organizer inspires her descendants to protect redwood forests. More than 100 years ago, Eureka’s Laura Perrott Mahan helped galvanize the movement to protect old-growth redwoods in danger of being clear-cut. In recent months, dozens of Mahan descendants and friends continued her legacy by supporting Save the Redwoods’ work to protect coast redwoods — raising funds to help the League purchase Atkins Place in Mendocino County.


A man stands in the center facing the camera between two large giant sequoia trees, with giant sequoias in the background shrouded in fog.

Backpacking in the giant sequoias

by Stanley Shaw on June 1, 2022

Ever thought about what it would be like to go backpacking in the giant sequoias? A small contingent of League staffers took a weekend backpacking trip in Alder Creek, and left with some amazing photos and new perspectives. Together, the four colleagues had a grand time stargazing, viewing the Stagg Tree (fifth largest tree in the world, as most of you already know!), and hiking uphill through the giant sequoia grove just above camp. Here’s what it was like.


Redwood Grove Loop trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP

Celebrate the First Annual California State Parks Week

by Save the Redwoods League on June 1, 2022

Parks across the state will offer special community events with in-person and virtual programming from June 14-18, 2022.


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Nearly all of giant sequoia range in highest drought category

by Save the Redwoods League on May 31, 2022

Nearly all of giant sequoia range in highest drought category.


Hendy Woods State Park is a state park of California, USA, located in the Anderson Valley of Mendocino County, known for its old-growth coast redwoods.

12 ways to make the most of summer in the redwoods

by Kelsey Piras on May 26, 2022

Summer is nearly here, with its long, golden days beckoning us outdoors for warm-weather adventures. Don’t let fall sneak up on you without making the most of this sunshiny season! Here are 12 ways to make the most of summertime in the redwoods.


Smith River

Six picturesque places to paddle in the redwoods

by Save the Redwoods League on May 25, 2022

Traveling on foot, wheels, and hooves are some ways to see the world’s tallest trees, but there’s nothing like paddling past magnificent coast redwood forests on beautiful rivers. These are the realms of playful river otters, magnificent ospreys, and at …


condor release

Time to spy a rare bird in the sky

by Juliet Grable on May 16, 2022

Next time you visit Redwood National and State Parks, you may see magnificent creatures that have been absent from this area for more than a century: California condors. The Yurok Tribe and Redwood National Park released the first two young …


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Volunteers plant seedlings in giant sequoia grove hit hard in Castle Fire

by Save the Redwoods League on May 11, 2022

Volunteers plant giant sequoia seedlings in Sequoia Crest hit heavily by Castle Fire.


Nina Roberts, PhD, is helping Save the Redwoods League to engage all people in redwood forests for their health and happiness and to inspire them to protect these precious natural wonders.

In honor of Nina Roberts

by Sam Hodder on May 9, 2022

Save the Redwoods League honors the life of a towering force in conservation and parks.


A woman stands at the base of a large coast redwood tree

A guide to nature journaling

by Emily Harwitz on April 22, 2022

To be a naturalist or an artist—or of course both, like Clay Anderson—requires paying attention; to the world around you and how you respond to it. Nature journaling is one of the ways you can do that.


woman walking in the forest

Atkins Place and its million-dollar view

by Adrianna Andreucci on April 19, 2022

Save the Redwoods League began negotiations in 2020 to acquire a property called Atkins Place, which shares a 0.75-mile border with Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County. Since then, I’ve made the journey from Ukiah (the largest city …


A woman stands next to a giant sequoia tree among burned giant sequoia, with the sun shining.

Giant sequoias’ declining wildfire resilience

by Garrison Frost on April 11, 2022

For millennia, one of the defining characteristics of giant sequoias has been their innate resilience to wildfire. But in the last several years, severe fires in the Sierra Nevada have revealed an unprecedented vulnerability in the groves. League staffers’ publication in a scientific journal is the first to document this new phenomenon.


Two men walking into a coast redwood forest

Thank you to our Forever Forest supporters for changing the redwoods’ fate

by Suzanne Moss on April 7, 2022

The ambitious Forever Forest campaign — now concluded — will fund key initiatives to lay the foundation for a new era of redwoods conservation. Even in the face of an unexpected global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires and climate change impacts, and some of the most divisive social and political times in America’s history, we as a community drew strength, inspiration, and resilience from the redwoods we all love.


A hike through Portola Redwoods State Park.

Video: Your redwoods playground

by Save the Redwoods League on April 1, 2022

A day trip to Portola Redwoods State Park highlights just a few of the fun things you can do in the redwoods.


native bee sorrel.

Pollinators of the redwood understory

by Jenny Hazlehurst on March 29, 2022

Bees and pollinators in the redwood forest


Students hold reference documents while studying plants in a redwood forest

Redwood Rides take off

by Leslie Parra on March 22, 2022

A new Save the Redwoods League program is coordinating free bus rides to redwood parks for organizations serving Black, Indigenous, and people of color as well as low-income communities. Redwood Rides removes the largest barrier preventing underrepresented communities from visiting …


Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Photo by Miguel Vieira, Flickr Creative Commons

California State Parks Week will celebrate a vital legacy

by Jennifer Benito-Kowalski on March 22, 2022

California State Parks Week is June 14-18


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