UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

Sequoia National Forest — in the Sierra Nevada northeast of Bakersfield — was once busy with timber production.

This year’s Earth Day theme, Our Power, Our Planet, invites everyone to unite behind renewable energy and to triple the ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Jeffrey pine, one of the iconic trees of the Sierra Nevada, appears to have eclipsed other pines to become the ...

The 100-acre tree nursery at George O. White State Forest, in Licking, Missouri, serves 13,000 customers a year — in the Show ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

The majestic redwood tree is one of the top things to see in California. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sequoia and ...

Timothy ground the lethal seeds from the hotel's 'Pong Pong Tree', but in a last-minute change of heart, he couldn't go through with it, knocking the drink from his son Saxon's (Patrick ...

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks were named the “best for supersized trees and landscapes,” while Yosemite was praised the “best for iconic hiking and climbing.” Yosemite National ...

Its seeds can lay dormant for years until intense heat and other cues from a wildfire triggers germination. (Another disturbance, such as a landslide, can also get it going.) The plant can grow ...

the giant sequoia trees. Among these towering giants stands General Sherman, the largest tree by volume in the world at 52,508 cubic feet. This park, which was the first established in the area to ...