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 ...

EAST LANSING, MI – Decades after being struck by lightning, a large dawn redwood stands tall and proud at Michigan State University, serving an example of a species once believed to be extinct.

There, she befriends two arborists who let her climb a towering Redwood tree on her own to process ... and nobody reported any falls or close calls. “There’s no fake flying in here.

It’s easy to fall into a big hole ... Kim’s gorgeous images of trees achieve the same uplifting effect in “Redwood” without the help of hydraulics.

But there’s little ideal about “Redwood,” a wholly unsurprising new tree-hugging musical (and I mean that literally) written and directed by Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Tina Landau ...