pygmy forest

Three people stand at the base of a giant redwood

Escape crowds at these 6 enthralling, lesser-known redwood parks

on

ExploreRedwoods.org has long showcased more than 100 national, state, and local redwood parks in California as well as a few in Oregon. To help narrow your choices as summer approaches, consider these favorite, off-the-beaten-track parks as chosen by Save the …

Two people stand beside a redwood shaped like a candelabra

10 of the strangest trees in the redwoods

on

A redwood forest typically includes tree after towering, straight tree, an expanse of magnificent columnar trunks reaching skyward. But there are odd redwoods out there. Here are some brow-raising examples.

Big River-Mendocino Old-Growth Redwoods. Photo by Mike Shoys

Opposites Attract: Saving Giant Redwoods and a Pygmy Forest

on

Thanks to your support, we were recently able to purchase and permanently protect Big River-Mendocino Old-Growth Redwoods! Having been in the business of protecting redwoods for nearly a century, you’d think the League would have been involved in every kind of …