2006-09-17 04:00:00 PDT Orick, Humboldt County-- California's ancient redwood forests have survived fires, logging and disease. Now they face a growing threat from poachers who steal downed old-growth ...

LEGGETT – It was the first full day of my redwood country road trip, about 180 miles north of San Francisco. John Stephenson was showing me his drive-through tree, a 315-foot beauty that’s the pride ...

A century-old redwood — California’s most revered tree — lies dead on the forest floor. Its trunk has been sawed into two large sections, a message scrawled on its stump in red marker: “STOP.” Beneath ...

Environmentalists who have fought loggers for generations have a surprising new strategy to save California’s storied old-growth redwood forests: Logging. Save the Redwoods League, a venerable San ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge pressed a conservation group on Thursday to show how a logging company’s plan to chop down 100-year-old redwood trees in a privately-owned forest in coastal ...

GUALALA (KCBS/AP) -- Cal Fire has approved a timber harvest plan that involves logging century-old redwood trees along the Sonoma County coast despite the objections of environmental advocates. The ...

“Dogwood” timber harvest plan lawsuit ends with logging permit vacated by CAL FIRE; most of 400 acres of Gualala River floodplain redwood forest left intact The lawsuit to stop logging the Gualala ...

The storied Pacific Lumber Co. will begin a new history as the Humboldt Redwood Co. today, after decades of troubled times and a dramatic rescue by a competitor. The Mendocino Redwood Co. has taken ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A timber company’s proposal to fell redwoods in a Northern California old-growth redwood forest won’t put endangered frogs and salmon species in harms way, a federal judge said ...