To slow it down, the Redwood National Park was created in 1968, protecting 58,000 acres of the forest. And in 1978, President Jimmy Carter expanded the park by 48,000 acres, nearly doubling its ...

Nestled within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) moderate hiking trail that offers an immersive experience in old-growth redwood forests. Starting ...

Everything you need to know about Redwood National and State Parks. As park overtourism becomes a greater challenge, head to this less-visited gem to be awestruck by the world’s tallest trees.

It’s hard to describe a place like Redwood National and State Parks. “We struggle with this on a daily basis, how to convey the feeling of it, because it's not just the math,” said Patrick ...

In what was once an old growth redwood forest that was heavily logged in 1968, a National Park Service forester points to an unruly tangle of spindly trees, 900 to the acre and so jam-packed it is ...

The first pair was released on May 3, 2022, in Redwood National and State Parks, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife report, which reclaimed a "significant part of their former historic range." ...

Some 125 acres of forest land in California's Redwood National and State Parks will return to the Yurok tribe in a first-of-its-kind arrangement.

Redwood National and State Parks includes 133,000 acres of federal and state land in Northern California, ... the Pacific Forest Trust writes, ...

The National Park Service is trying to preserve the world’s tallest tree by banning hikes to it. But this approach will never completely work since the location of the 380-foot redwood is an ...

An ongoing study by a Cal Poly Humboldt professor seeks to find whether thinning in Redwood National Park helped local forests weather last year’s Lost Fire, which scorched roughly 800 acres.