But you couldn’t do that with the redwood forest because the trees were so huge, and you needed so much capital to cut them ...

Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a wonderful evergreen species, with mature trees commonly reaching 300 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. (Giant sequoia is even larger and is a different species.) ...

A logger and a redwood; Spencer Stiff, who oversees forest restoration for Save the Redwoods League; redwood logs en route to a mill in the early 20th century.Credit...Swanlund-Baker Collection ...

Gazos Creek redwood forest, near the San Mateo-Santa Cruz County line, on March 15, 2019. (Photo: Big Creek Lumber / Peninsula Open Space Trust) The deal is part of a growing trend in California ...

It’s the oldest coast redwood forest, preserved by Rockefeller with ... the park on Highway 101), a factory town owned by ...

tiny Pacific wrens that hop along logs with their stubby tails held upright, chirping high-pitch notes. They’re cute and perky, like little welcome ambassadors to the redwood forest. California ...

Think CSI: Redwood Forest. Sponsor Message A new book by writer ... Back then, however, the problem was theft of dead redwood logs, not live trees. "Although thieves haven't started chopping ...

The tree persevered, even as an estimated 95% of California’s original redwood forest was chopped or burned ... which owns the acreage and planned to log a portion of it this year.

The only thing missing two centuries from now, says Andre, will be the massive fallen logs of Van Pelt's "silvatic mosaic". To thin the forest, since the 1980s, Arcata has cut enough redwood to ...

Sparked by a lightning strike in 2023, the Lost Fire mostly burned through second-growth redwood forests — vigorously ... cable logging to transport fallen logs off steep hillsides.

eventually becoming the Shay steam locomotive that could carry logs on almost any type of track, and that would be heavily used until the 20th century. The Redwood Forest Steam Train is back on ...

The only thing missing two centuries from now, says Andre, will be the massive fallen logs of Van Pelt's "silvatic mosaic". To thin the forest, since the 1980s, Arcata has cut enough redwood to ...