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Hendy Woods in Mendocino County offers solitude, towering redwoods, and timeless beauty far from California’s crowded trails.

State’s fire agency is greenwashing its industrial logging side hustle, while raising carbon emissions — and fire risk ...

It’s hard to describe a place like Redwood National and State Parks. “We struggle with this on a daily basis, how to convey the feeling of it, because it's not just the math,” said Patrick Taylor, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Two jovial women bounded down a soggy trail with a question: "Where's the Big Tree?" "Look up," I suggested. They barely concealed smirks. The hikers wanted to see the featured tree ...

In Sonoma County, near a community once called Stumptown because of the sprawling graveyard of cleaved trees left in the wake of California’s early logging boom, one ancient redwood has repeatedly ...

This photo of the Gualala River was featured in a federal complaint in September 2020 challenging a plan to chop down old-growth Redwood trees in a 342-acre area around the river. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — ...

On an overcast day in May 2022, a group of men climbed to the top of Hyperion, a 380-foot tree that is currently the tallest in the world. When their leader, Simeon Balsam, reached the crown, he and ...

For now, at least, the chain saws are off-limits at the Bohemian Grove, the woody retreat of America’s rich and powerful. The Bohemian Club, an all-male bastion synonymous with wealth and influence, ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves.