By Dave Green
The world’s tallest living tree, a 380-foot-tall Redwood named Hyperion, is now off-limits to visitors. Eager tourists who attempt to seek it out anyway could face fines of $5,000 or up to six months in jail. Read the full article here -> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-tallest-tree-is-officially-off-limits-180980509/
By Dave Green
Here at Redwood Trees, we’ve successfully germinated another 350 Giant Redwoods With each batch we are gradually getting a better germination rate, this batch was 70%. Just recently potted up into 9cm pots, they will be ready for sale in Autumn.
By Dave Green
A new Home Bargains store in Wimbledon has been told it cannot cut down three mature trees including a Dawn Redwood on the site of its new home. Thankfully after unsuccessfully arguing that Tree Preservation Order wasn’t necessary the council kept the TPO. Organisations lobby local government all the time to argue that TPOs need […]
By Dave Green
California State Parks, Tolowa Dee-Ni’ Nation, Save the Redwoods League, Redwood Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service have recently completed the Mill Creek Trail and a new boardwalk through the famed grove in California, USA. Read the full article → https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/38664-grove-of-titans-trail-project-completed-providing-access-to-some-of-the-world-s-largest-and-oldest-redwood-trees-in-california There is also an excellent YouTube video → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sog2FWTRes4
By Dave Green
Until August 2006, it was believed that the tallest tree in the world was The Stratosphere Giant, a Californian redwood measuring 112.5 meters. As of today, the tallest tree in the world is Hyperion, another gigantic coast redwood tree Sequoia sempervirens. Hyperion was discovered by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor at the end of […]
By Dave Green
An unlucky Redwood in Oregon, US took a direct lightning strike recently causing catastrophic damage to the 10 – 12ft diameter tree. Continue reading here or here.
By Dave Green
Here’s an short excellent video showing both the good and bad of the post-fire Armstrong Woods, California which preserves stately and magnificent Sequoia sempervirens Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyH_gQTEEzY
By Dave Green
O’Neil, who works for California State Parks, soon realized that redwoods that were damaged or stressed by the Walbridge fire 18 months earlier were releasing millions of seeds. It was a bumper crop of new life produced in the cones that erupted after the fire and matured over the previous year. Now, three months later, […]
By Dave Green
US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order to inventory and protect old-growth forests while visiting Seattle Friday. The order requires the US Department of the Interior and US Department of Agriculture to come up with a shared definition of mature and old-growth forests that includes Coast & Giant Redwood species and gives them […]
By Dave Green
This photo provided by California State Parks shows the Pioneer Tree one of the few remaining old-growth coastal redwoods at Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Calif., on Thursday, March 24, 2022, after it collapsed from a fire.
