from the fact that I had shredded redwood mulch about 2-3 inches deep against the [trunk], although it was pretty loose and airy," the OP said. When it comes to tree care, many have made the ...

Meanwhile, against Stella’s mammoth trunk and amid this barrage of pixels ... an environmental activist who lived at the top of a redwood tree for two years in the late 1990s to protest its ...

Grabbing huckleberry roots and clumps of sword ferns, I hauled myself and my 60-pound pack up its organic wall onto a trunk ... redwood in Big Sur to the northernmost tree near Oregon’s Chetco ...

Semper Virens. Heartwood. A knotty growth of bark, the burls are filled with unspotted bud tissue—should a redwood tree fall, a burl can sprout a new tree. The burls, which fetch thousands of ...

"There is something a little fantastic," wrote Edmund Schulman in the March 1958 National Geographic, "in the persistent ability of a 4,000-year-old tree to ... a coast redwood found in Montgomery ...

Its four great limbs, each as big as a sizable tree, elbow outward from the trunk around halfway up ... than their biggest compeer, the coast redwood, even with a shorter growing season.

How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent, buckets of conservation-grade resin and a lot of patience. Giant sequoias are among the largest organisms in the world. It took 12 ...

The giant redwood stands at around 120ft ... known to reach over 300ft tall and have a trunk diameter of nearly 30ft. While the Cherry family's tree is not quite so big, and benefits from ...