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

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

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.

These surviving beauts, some with singed trunks and leaves, are a sign of hope for many Californians, for whom the state’s mythology and aesthetics are so wrapped up in trees. California is ...

Gavin Newsom this week and take effect July 1. Western Joshua trees have been protected on an interim basis, as a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, since September 2020.

SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups and Humboldt residents have appealed a California court’s dismissal of ... the root system of old-growth redwoods harms the trees themselves. This is common sense.