Day hikes are one way to experience the awe of California’s coast redwood and giant sequoia forests, but there’s nothing like the immersive experience of backpacking in these places. Carrying everything you’ll need allows you to reach parts of the …
amazing photos of rare snowfall in the coast redwood range
Activist and photographer Dave Van de Mark returned to remote areas of Redwood Creek to photograph changes its changes more than 50 years after its conservation.
Next time you visit Redwood National and State Parks, you may see California condors taking flight among the redwoods. California condors, magnificent creatures that have been absent from this area for more than a century, were nearly extinct by the 1980s. Thanks to a monumental conservation effort and successful captive breeding program, there are now wild condor populations in Central and Southern California, Arizona, and Baja Mexico. Now, condors may even be returning to Northern California skies.
Planted first phase of multi-year Redwoods Rising tree planting project.
Photographer Dave Van de Mark revisits and photographs an area of Redwood National Park 53 years later.
In episode 2 of “Explore the Redwoods”, host Jayrlin Molina leads us on a hike through the redwoods of northern California. “Explore the Redwoods” is an online series produced in partnership with Latino Outdoors and Save the Redwoods League.
Far up the California coast, just south of Crescent City and the Oregon border is a spectacular ridge that overlooks the shimmering waters of Humboldt Lagoons State Park to the west. To the east are the vast old-growth redwoods of …
Save the Redwoods League is supporting two important local funding measures on the November 2018 ballot for local and regional parks.
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newly acquired Mistier and Nesset properties, together with two adjacent and
previously acquired properties, total 90 acres. The League plans to transfer all
four properties to Redwood National Park in 2020.
Eighteen students from Humboldt State University (HSU) are participating in a collaborative restoration project known as Redwoods Rising, gaining valuable knowledge and work experience studying the historically logged coast redwood forests in Redwood National and State Parks this summer.
Eighteen students from Humboldt State University (HSU) are participating in a collaborative restoration project known as Redwoods Rising, gaining valuable knowledge and work experience studying the historically logged coast redwood forests in Redwood National and State Parks this summer.
Save the Redwoods League, the National Park Service and California State Parks today announced the kickoff of Redwoods Rising, a collaborative effort to restore the historically logged redwood forest within Redwood National and State Parks.
At Redwood National Park, a two-person storm patrol crew is working to fight erosion. As Janette Parsons and Brittney Mcguire ended their summer season working at the park last year, they were asked to continue as part of the League’s winter storm patrol crew.
The fresh, salty air hung heavy as I wound my way south along the coastal highway with expansive vistas of the Pacific Ocean stretching across and meeting the blue sky infinitely far away. I’m on my way to see the giants I’d dreamed about since I was a kid. Could it be true? Entire cars driving through a tunnel in a tree trunk? No way.
Arguello has worked at Redwood National and State Parks ever since, and he is now Joint Chief of Resource Management and Science, often collaborating with partners such as the League to implement restoration projects. Today, his foremost task as chief is much the same as when he was hired as a student so many years ago: help restore the park’s world-renowned redwood ecosystems.
After disappearing from the Pacific Northwest over a century ago, wild California condors may once again find ample nesting, breeding, and foraging habitat in the redwood range.
They are beautiful, inspiring and majestic, right? Not all of them. Hidden in the darkest recesses of both forests lurk some of the creepiest trees on the planet, awaiting those brave enough to disturb them during the Halloween season.
Over the weekend, the League celebrated the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service at our Orick Mill Site property near Redwood National and State Parks. It was a momentous event, and I was honored to speak to the attendees about the significance of the moment. For those who weren’t able to be there, I’ll take the opportunity to share my remarks, and some photos, here.
Part of Redwood National and State Parks. Ancient redwoods in Tall Trees Grove, Ladybird Johnson Grove.
