Redwoods in California’s coastal mountains get more of the glory including being the official state tree. But redwoods are babes and petite in terms of girth and age compared to their giant sequoia ...

It has been declared extinct, but is considered a living fossil and is related to the California redwood and giant sequoia, diverging around 150 million years ago. The dawn redwood is resilient and ...

At the Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in the Canadian province of British Columbia, sulfur buckwheat seedlings fill Styrofoam trays. It’s October, the end of the growing season, and each is just a small ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. In over a decade of strolling through my favorite Parisian park, I ...

It smelled like Christmas inside the Silvaseed extractory Tuesday morning as machines whirred meticulously to remove millions of conifer seeds from cones and sort them into large barrels. Hidden ...

Silvaseed operates the region's largest private seed bank and extractory in Roy. Staff collect, process and x‑ray billions of conifer seeds and grow seedlings. Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits ...

Hoosiers can squirrel away some extra cash each fall by collecting acorns and other tree seeds and selling them to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The state buys hickory, oak, walnut and ...

A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire. Wildland firefighters with tree ...