The children were part of the Capitol Junior Rangers program, a statewide initiative for children aged 7 to 12 to learn about ...

All Bark, No Bite: Redwood. ... an environmental activist who lived at the top of a redwood tree for two years in the late 1990s to protest its felling by the Pacific Lumber Company.

Tree bark is involved with water storage and with mechanical support of the tree. Coastal redwood trees commonly have extremely thick (as much as two feet or more) outer bark around the base of ...

The earliest redwood trees existed more than 200 million years ago alongside dinosaurs in the Jurassic period. Their natural range has shrunk a lot in that time, ... Perhaps their most identifiable ...

As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...

The name “redwood” comes from their reddish-brown bark and heartwood. A dawn redwood towers over its neighbors and a home on Feb. 5, 2025, in Stevensville, Mich.

In what was once an old growth redwood forest that was heavily logged in 1968, a National Park Service forester points to an unruly tangle of spindly trees, 900 to the acre and so jam-packed it is ...

Burls are bark-covered growths that can protrude from a tree’s trunk. They contain unsprouted bud tissue, and produce a wood that’s valued for its unique grain and smooth workability. Wolfgang ...

There were many things Bay Curious listener Julie Menter loved about her Oakland home when she first moved there in 2017. Chief among them were the three towering redwood trees in her backyard, which ...