I met my first dawn redwood 30 years ago, on a walk across the UC Berkeley campus. As I recall, it was just around a corner from Trader Vic Bergeron's bronze saber-toothed cat. The tree was handsome, ...

At a house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; the Sierra redwood or giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron ...

) was native to the Northwest before the Glacial Age. Fossil sites in the Columbia River Gorge provide ample evidence of its existence. This ancient tree was rediscovered in the 1940s in China after ...

A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of redwoods as growing only along California's coast, where numerous national and state parks are filled ...

Q. Does the dawn redwood grow best in an acid or alkaline soil? Does it hold its needles or shed them in winter? How can I control mole crickets? -- D.L.W., Bryan A. The dawn redwood, Metasequoia ...

HARRY R. WRITES: What is the difference between the dawn redwood and bald cypress? A neighbor has two trees that looked like our coastal redwood trees, but according to the neighbor, they are really ...

A tree species once thought to be extinct is thriving in Michigan. The dawn redwood was rediscovered in the 1940s. Since then, dozens – perhaps even hundreds – have been planted throughout Michigan.

Are you the owner of a big dawn redwood? It could be eligible for inclusion on the Michigan Big Tree Register. This sequoia species is known to grow up to 140 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter, living ...

When you last bought stamps at the downtown Palo Alto post office did you feel a sense of sorrow over the apparent demise of that mature redwood on the post office's Waverley Street frontage? Well ...