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Alerce. Photo by andrea ugarte, Flickr Creative Commons

80 Degrees of Separation

by Ruskin Hartley on

If you leave Redwood National Park and journey 80 degrees south you will arrive at the coastal town of Valdivia, Chile.  These two areas—equidistant from the equator, north and south—are about to be united through a sister park relationship that …

Majestic coast redwood tree.

Calling on the Wisdom of a Redwood Tree

by Harry Pollack on

The bark on our redwood tree was especially soft this morning.  The ground was squishy beneath my feet.  It was drippy as I stood underneath the tree in the morning fog, and newly fallen redwood leaves littered the ground. I …