western sword fern Archives

Researchers found that western swordferns from the center of the north-south redwood range had the highest capacity for foliar uptake, or water absorption through leaves. Photo by photogjim2

Western Swordferns’ Water Absorption Differences Likely Due to Leaf Structure

by Save the Redwoods League on April 12, 2019

Researchers in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley investigated foliar uptake in western swordfern, an integral species in the redwood ecosystem.

Ferns Flush First after Fire

by Emily Burns on January 16, 2015

On October 14th last year, a wildfire burned four acres of coast redwood forest at Roy’s Redwoods Preserve in Western Marin. Despite this fire blazing after many cumulative months of dry weather, fire fighters quickly contained the burn and only …