Rio Baran's senior thesis research sought to explore what few scientists have attempted. “Rio is an exceptional undergraduate student,” said her adviser, geosciences professor John Higgins.

Nature lovers of all activity levels must visit this paradise in Sonoma County to check out the huge redwood trees!

Divided into five wilderness areas, this national forest in California is a colossal expanse with trails, backcountry camping ...

California is a land of striking geographic ... Humboldt Redwoods is a state park, it has a reputation that rivals national parks. The park is renowned for the Rockefeller Forest, the world ...

Stretching along California’s North Coast, the largest surviving block of old-growth redwood forest ... The park is home to coast redwoods that tower more than 300 feet tall, and a national ...

Coastal redwoods are the tallest trees on earth and can live to be more than 2,000 years old, although the average age is 800 to 1,500 years old, according to the National Park Service.

Each year in the spring, we take a family trip just across the border to California’s Redwood National and State Park system ... you can head back into the forest. The best thing about the ...

on Cement Creek Road and close to popular tourist spots like Healesville and Mount Donna Buang The other redwood forest in Victoria is in Beech Forest, within the Great Otway National Park ...

Lanny Flaherty, a fired U.S. Forest Service employee, pictured here, protecting the giant redwood trees at the ... probationary employees of the National Park Service, which is under the U.S ...

In one of the largest deals to protect open space in the Bay Area over the past decade, an environmental group is purchasing a scenic redwood forest ... Redwood National Park and Sequoia-Kings ...

Photograph by Krista Rossow, Nat Geo Image Collection In 1978, Congress nearly doubled the national park’s initial size ... panoramic views of the redwood forest including Redwood Creek Overlook ...