Wildflowers of the redwood forests
onIf it’s spring, it’s wildflower season. Wildflower season is one of the best times to experiences California’s great outdoors.
Tips for summer travel to the redwoods
onEvery summer, millions of people from around the world descend on California’s redwood country, the central and northern coast redwood forests, as well as the giant sequoia groves in the Sierra. But with the continuing COVID-19 crisis, summer 2020 is shaping up to be a travel season like no other before it.
Defiant Redwood of the Week: Stagg Tree
onThe Stagg Tree is the fifth largest known tree in the world, centuries old. The League acquired this great tree as part of its recent acquisition of Alder Creek. At eye level, it has so many scars on its trunk from fire and weather that it’s hard to imagine what the original tree looked like. At some point, fire got through the bark of this massive tree and carved out a tunnel that now stands as some kind of flying buttress. But the tree lives on, growing wider and taller.
Defiant Redwood of the Week: Giant Tree
onGiant Tree in the Rockefeller Loop of Humboldt Redwoods State Park is not the biggest or the tallest, but it might be the most coast redwood-ish. And that’s probably why it got its designation from the American Forestry Association as the National Champion Coast Redwood in 1991.
Defiant Redwood of the Week: Chimney Tree
onMeet the tree that refuses to give in. Lots of people pose for pictures in front of – and inside – the Chimney Tree. It wears its damage proudly.
How to make redwood cookies
onLearn how you can take advantage of the spring’s new redwood needles to flavor delicious shortbread cookies. C’mon, set aside your sourdough starter and give it a try.
Defiant Redwood of the Week: General Sherman Tree
onThe General Sherman Tree is about 2,000 years old and is a giant among giants. Considered the world’s largest tree, measured by volume, it stands 275 feet tall. In a world full of threats and challenges, it has planted its roots and set its defenses. It is strong and ready.
10 nerdy cool things about redwoods
onHelp connect kids to redwoods from afar by teaching them fun redwood forest facts – starting with these 10 neat facts you may not know about the redwoods.
Defiant Redwood of the Week: Candelabra redwoods
onFew trees exemplify strength and perseverance more than the 1,640-year-old McApin Tree on the League’s Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve.
Protecting Habitat from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
onExperience the Cascade Creek property through photos as the League advances the effort to protect this jewel of a landscape connecting the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
During the Pandemic, Nature Heals Us
onThis is an opportunity for the conservation community to reflect on how to provide equitable access to green spaces.
Defiant Redwood of the Week: McApin Tree
onFew trees exemplify strength and perseverance more than the 1,640-year-old McApin Tree on the League’s Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve.
Redwood Memories
onOur staff shares their fondest memories of being in the tall trees
Defiant Redwood of the Week: Grizzly Giant
onThis is a serious tree. If a tree could talk, the eternal message from this 210-foot-tall giant sequoia in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove would be Bring It On. At roughly 3,000 years old and 1,500 tons, it is the very definition …
How to Help Kids Connect With the Redwoods from a Distance
onRemember… The Redwoods have stood tall through histories of disaster and destruction and are still here to help us breathe. While schools are closed and shelter-in-place is in effect throughout California, the forests can remind us of our opportunity to …