It’s late afternoon in the redwoods and shadows lengthen across the forest floor. Tendrils of mist curl around the trunks of trees. You glance down and shiver: Is that thing emerging from a buried log natural … or supernatural? Damp, …
Save the Redwoods League grant recipient Prakrit Jain is on a mission to capture footage of the elusive Sonoma tree vole.
Growing up in eastern Virginia, I was surrounded by maples, hickories, and beeches—leafy in summer, ablaze with color in fall, and stripped bare against the winter sky. I remember a favorite teacher pointing out a skeletal branch in January and …
It took sprinklers and smokejumpers to prevent loss of giant sequoias during the Garnet Fire. Fire resilience is a better strategy.
After two years of League-funded repair work, Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Falls Trail is reopened to visitors.
We’re proud to introduce Save the Redwoods League’s new community fundraising platform, Branch Out for the Redwoods. We’ve created an easy way for you to turn your personal passions, adventures, and milestones into real impact by raising money for redwood forest protection and restoration.
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.
Our favorite cabins when we want to spend the night in the big trees but want something cozier than a tent.
Thanks to your incredible support—we did it! On June 20, 2025, Save the Redwoods League purchased the 1,517-acre Monte Rio Redwoods Expansion property and transferred it to Sonoma County Regional Parks for ongoing stewardship and eventual public access. Conserving this …
It was very much a typical Fourth of July celebration. We played outside, splashed in the water, and shared food across a picnic table. Except instead of raucous crowds, booming fireworks, and sloshing beer, we were occupied with the lyrical …
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 …
Vrinda Suresh is the geographic information systems (GIS) program manager at Save the Redwoods League, where she transforms spatial data into compelling visual stories and conservation planning tools. Vrinda spoke with us about the science and art of modern mapmaking and how maps guide important conservation decisions at the League. Here’s how she brings meaning to maps.
Follow the daylighting work of the Redwoods Rising initiative—a collaboration between Save the Redwoods League, California State Parks, and the National Park Service—uncovering and restoring once-buried streams in California’s redwood forests. The forest restoration experts that do the crucial work …
Nature lovers, forest champions, and long-standing League partners gathered for a night of music, meaning, and momentum for redwoods conservation. From forest bathing to forest beats, Take Me to the Trees 2025 was more than a celebration. It was a testament to what it means to come together for something bigger than ourselves. The League thanks every guest, donor, partner, artist, and sponsor who made this magical evening possible. Together, we are helping the redwoods thrive!
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.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Save the Redwoods League (@savetheredwoods) Griff Griffith describes the formerly clear-cut areas in and around Redwood National and State Parks as a “gaping wound”—one that Redwoods Rising and ‘O …
At Learning Without Limits Elementary School in Oakland, California, fourth grade means fun field trips. The students have heard stories from older kids about hiking in a redwood forest and wading out into the San Francisco Bay. Now it’s finally …
Researcher Alana Chin looks at redwood leaf shoots up close to learn how their parent trees might adapt to changing weather patterns.
In the new musical Redwood, Zachary Noah Piser takes to the stage alongside two icons: Broadway legend Idina Menzel and a massive coast redwood, magnificently recreated inside the Nederlander Theatre. The fact that Piser holds the audience’s rapt attention is …
