Redwood and Climate Change Initiative Archives

Research from Save the Redwoods League and Humboldt State University Confirms Significant Role of Redwood Forests in California’s Climate Fight

by Save the Redwoods League on April 30, 2020

Policymakers in California and all over the world are exploring the potential of natural solutions to the climate change crisis, particularly the role forests play in storing carbon in their wood as they grow. Recent findings bolster research confirming massive carbon storage in old-growth redwood forests and potential of younger, previously logged forests.

Small salamanders are having a big impact. Photo by Anthony Ambrose

Salamanders in the News

by Richard Campbell on April 16, 2014

It’s not often that salamanders make the New York Times. But last week, the ‘Science’ section featured an article on a study investigating the role of salamanders in the global carbon cycle. Basically, salamanders are among the top predators in …

A Redwood of a Blog: How the Giant Trees Grow

by Richard Campbell on September 11, 2013

RCCI’s nursery experiments and tree ring analyses are essential to understanding the past and future of the redwood forest, but it is the trees themselves that tell us about its present. By establishing 16 large plots in old-growth forests throughout …

Dendrochronology: The Glue that Binds RCCI

by Richard Campbell on September 4, 2013

The first phase of the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative was based upon understanding how past climate has affected the ancient redwood and giant sequoia forests. To do this, the research teams relied upon the science of dendrochronology: the analysis of …

Climate change is good for the redwoods…But is it climate change and is it good?

by Richard Campbell on August 21, 2013

I’ve spent much of the past week thinking about our Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative, and what our recent results mean for the future of the redwood forest. As with any good scientific research, the first phase of RCCI raised far …