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 ...

Around 1850, men with axes began cutting down California’s redwoods, the first step in a process that turned the giant trees into houses, railroad ties, cigar boxes and other products. As James ...

Humboldt County residents can expect to start seeing advertisements promoting the use of redwood over other building materials thanks to a marketing program that will utilize a Headwaters Fund grant.

2001-05-13 04:00:00 PDT Scotia, Humboldt County-- After more than 90 years of turning ancient redwoods into lumber, the largest old-growth sawmill in the world has shut down, a casualty of ...

A two-alarm blaze at a Mendocino County lumber yard started in the wee hours of Thursday morning and stretched into the afternoon as firefighters battled to extinguish the flames, fire personnel said.

Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a wonderful evergreen species, with mature trees commonly reaching 300 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. (Giant sequoia is even larger and is a different species.) ...

A small school in Occidental is turning the loss of a towering redwood on campus into profits and lessons about nature and history. At 165 feet, the 370-year-old tree was among the tallest in a grove ...

An environmental saga that transfixed the world took an ugly turn yesterday when it was revealed that Luna, a 1,000-year-old redwood that was home for two years to tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill, ...

The Redwood Empire was an idea hatched in the early 1920s by Crescent City hotelier A.D. Lee, who wanted to promote tourism to his city and hotel. The automobile age was transforming how people ...