Visit Redwood National and State Parks in northern California and you can wander shaded forest trails lit by pale sunlight ...

Last week we took you on a tour up California’s near North Coast ... ever recorded in a coast redwood forest, the result of dense redwoods both growing and those toppled like ‘pick-up sticks ...

The giant trees grow along the Pacific Coast in northern and central California and southern Oregon. The base can be up to 22 feet in diameter. Some coastal redwoods have exceeded this.

A ragged blanket of coastal fog in northern California’s Humboldt Redwoods State Park nurtures old giants alongside smaller second-growth trees outside the park. Redwoods depend on fog for more ...

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees ... Years of logging have left less than 5 percent of the old-growth coastal redwood trees standing, most of them in the protected ...

Adapted to coastal environments, the trees rely heavily on ... University of California at Berkeley biologist Todd Dawson found that redwoods capture tremendous quantities of moisture from fog.

So I headed for the coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) – the tallest trees in the world! On my recent trip to California I took a day out of my wildlife photography schedule to visit a ...