Petition urges Illinois State University to “let it grow” as the largest and oldest dawn redwood in the Fell Arboretum is set ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

It has been declared extinct, but is considered a living fossil and is related to the California redwood and giant sequoia, diverging around 150 million years ago. The dawn redwood is resilient and ...

At a corner house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; the Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum; and the ...

Dawn Redwood is a deciduous tree with feathery needles that is one of the oldest trees on earth. This unique tree turns russet brown in the fall before it drops its needles. Courtesy photo The third ...

Now that we’re turning the clocks back to Eastern Standard Time this weekend, it’s finally beginning to feel like fall. The branches of the dawn redwood tree in the yard are turning orange, and the ...