Rome Free Academy science teacher Elaine Rotenberry, left, and reading teacher Melinda Boufford planted Arti, a giant sequoia sapling in May. As a seed, Arti traveled into space on NASA's Artemis ...

Yes, you can grow redwood and sequoia trees in Southern California. Rick Akers, who lives in Long Beach, has mature specimens that prove the point. “I planted both from seedlings I procured at ...

A small tree growing on the grounds of Rome Free Academy already has quite a story to tell, one that stretches into space beyond the moon and goes back in time to when humans discovered iron, rice ...

Extreme wildfires have destroyed about one-fifth of all giant sequoia trees. To safeguard their future, the National Park Service is planting seedlings that could better survive a hotter climate.

Students at Santiago STEAM Magnet Elementary School participate at a ceremony to plant a small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA’s Artemis I Mission’s tree seeds that traveled around the moon twice ...

The school, which has roughly 500 students in grades K-12, was among those selected to receive a seedling for a giant sequoia that was grown with seeds flown on NASA’s Artemis I Mission in 2022.

The Park Service plans to plant in areas with less than 14,112 sequoia seedlings per acre. That’s a lot of seedlings – roughly one tree every three square feet.