In one of the largest deals to protect open space in the Bay Area over the past decade, an environmental group is purchasing ...

and his team measure a re cave in a massive redwood in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Wild res have twice burned this tree but failed to kill it. The trees have another trick foresters love.

Cathedral Trees is an easy, long trail through some impressive Redwoods in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. The trail is an out & back and you can go as far as you want before returning.

"No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree," the novelist John Steinbeck once wrote. "The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe ..