Redwood trees have shallow root systems that extend over one hundred feet from the base of the tree, intertwining with the roots of other redwoods for support. The roots are typically all growing ...

Redwood trees are famous, so you may be surprised ... species and can grow to well over 300 feet tall. Yet their root systems only extent to about 6 to 12 feet below the ground.

An extremely rare, albino hermaphroditic redwood tree was in danger of ... they have to dig a hole around this entire root system and lift the tree up. And then what they're planning on doing ...

These enormous trees exist primarily in Northern California ... Like sequoias, redwoods require abundant water to drink and have shallow root systems. Redwoods, however, get their water from ...

The earliest redwood trees existed more than 200 million years ago alongside ... is that they help each other,” said Zierten. Their shallow but wide root systems allow them to grow to be the tallest ...

At first sight, you may not quite believe your eyes. From a distance, these trees look like young redwoods flocked with snow or frost. Yet as you get closer, you realize that the white tint is not ...

A redwood tree called El Palo Alto has long ... drew down the creek’s water table in past decades, depriving the tree’s roots of water. Termites and compacted soil added to the decline.

"Tina [Landau] and I have this fascination with trees and this image ... calls upon the ethos of the Redwood forest and everything they represent- their root system and how they sustain each ...

“The usage was having an impact on the vegetation and potentially the root system of the very tree that people are going there to visit,” Leonel Arguello, Redwood National Park’s chief of ...