California's Redwood National Park is home to some of the largest trees on earth. A particular hike will bring you up close ...

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The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than 250 ft. tall, with a circumference greater than 90 ft. at their base. The oldest have seen more than 3,000 years.

On a cutover California hillside ... some foresters call them the biggest "pest" in the redwoods. But bears became a problem only when companies began growing trees like a crop.

Trees grow tall and wide-crowned as a measure ... Michael Nichols photographed California’s giant redwoods for the October 2009 issue.

In fact, licorice fern has been documented in the crown of one of the largest redwood trees in California, at heights of well over 50 meters. There are dozens of species of Polypodium around the ...

Slippery salamanders glide mysteriously through the canopies of the world’s tallest trees. Now ... to maneuver seamlessly across California’s coastal redwoods. The answer might be surprising.

Seven giant sequoia trees in Ketton ... for years and years to California. "I had some awareness about the plans to expand the quarry and I knew about the redwood trees, but it was really when ...

No redwood road trip is complete without driving down Avenue of the Giants. For about 30 miles you will pass redwood after redwood.

Gavin Newsom visited Big Basin State Park — California’s oldest ... and was surrounded by the cool shade of giant redwood and towering Douglas fir trees, was unrecognizable Tuesday.