At 18-inches tall, the delicate sapling looks almost vulnerable as Blue Ox Millworks and Historic Park co-founder Eric Hollenbeck and Freshwater resident Steve D’Agati hold it aloft on a recent morning in front of a massive cross-section of the ancient tree from which it was cloned. The moment was, in many ways, a homecoming for […]
Redwood
Posted inNews
Crimes Against Nature: Poaching Takes its Toll on the North Coast
They come at night, under the cover of darkness, traversing the back roads of Redwood National and State Parks, home to much of what remains of the world’s last old growth redwood stands. Carrying chainsaws and wearing headlamps, the thieves often take side trails to scour the towering trunks for knobbed growths that encase intricately […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
Dawn Redwoods: Alive and Kicking!
“If a man has to have a memorial or a monument to commemorate his life and his work, nothing could be more fitting than a living Dawn Redwood.” — Andrew Genzoli, Times-Standard, March 18, 1971 Just south of Pepperwood on the Avenue of the Giants, at the start of the 2.4-mile-long Drury-Chaney trail, a plaque on a […]
Posted inNews
Up a Tree
Chris Sharma (kind of a big deal among people who scale things, mostly rocks) filmed a climb up a redwood tree in Sequoia Park last month. The renowned climber, who hails from Santa Cruz, spider-monkeyed his way up the 600-700-year-old, fire-scarred trunk with his bare hands, a lead rope and no other gadgetry. You can […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
A Home in a Redwood
Maybe you’re feeling low, a little too close to the ground. You want a place of retreat to elevate, inspire and get you floating again. For Humboldt County resident Crystal Miller, a longtime lover of great trees, that meant a treehouse in a redwood in her backyard. Miller and her fiancé Arif Malik bought their […]
Posted inArts + Scene
Best Of: The Making of
Your picks for the Best Of 2013 are all over this week’s Journal, which is on stands today (and online tomorrow). If you grabbed the paper already, you saw Journalista and boss artist Lynn Jones’ magnificent hand-carved redwood frame adorning the cover. Check out this video of Lynn designing and creating the frame, with tunes […]