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4 places to explore redwoods in Southern California

by Christin Campbell on July 9, 2024

When I first moved to Los Angeles from my small town, I imagined a towering cityscape more than I ever imagined towering trees. And yet, it was only after moving to this city of sprawling concrete, that I found myself staring up at the tallest species of trees in the world not even a 15-minute drive from my apartment.

Three women walk through a young coast redwood grove

Breezing through the SoCal redwoods with Outdoor Asian

by Dana Viloria on May 28, 2021

Outdoor Asian hosted Asian and Pacific Islander community members and allies on a walk through a redwood grove in Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Brea, California.

Coast redwoods on the UCI campus are not thriving.

Can redwoods thrive in Southern California climate?

by Emily Burns on January 11, 2013

Redwoods do fine in Southern California, right? Researchers at UC Irvine are not totally convinced. In the 1980’s a scientist by the name of Ernest Ball cloned coast redwood giants from Northern California and reared test-tube redwoods. Many of these …