The project will not only replace blight with majestic trees, but could also improve air quality and preserve the trees ...

Giant sequoia saplings planted by Detroit arborists aim to combat pollution and preserve native trees, creating an urban ...

but not for giant sequoias (or other tall species, including coast redwoods). Sillett and his team have disproved it by doing something that earlier forest ecologists didn’t: climbing the big ...

The understory was lush and green from late snowmelt, with ferns, grasses and wildflowers covering the forest floor. I had visited the park before, but seeing the sequoias in the Giant Forest, where ...

There are hundreds of miles of trails in Sequoia National Park suitable for all abilities and ages. In the Giant Forest, the Congress Trail, a paved 2.7-mile loop that begins near the General ...

How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent ... a huge impact on tree population. When the sequoia was felled in 1893, nearly 70% of the world's land area was covered in trees and ...

The towering, 2,500-year-old “Mother of the Forest” (second from left ... The astounding trees we now know as giant sequoias can live for more than 3,000 years and grow to some 300 feet ...

DETROIT (AP) — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit’s eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world’s ...