As James Michael Buckley recounts in “City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry,” the ...

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.) ...

That decimation started when miners rushed in for gold, killing and displacing tens of thousands of Native Americans in California and ravaging the redwood trees for lumber. "Everything was ...

The film **"Redwood Empire Special and Lumber Mills"** is a condensed version of the Golden Spike celebration held on October 23, 1914, commemorating the completion of the Northwestern Pacific ...

an area on the bay’s edge with a port for shipping redwood lumber to San Francisco. Mezes evicted all the squatters in the area and mapped out “Mezesville.” He reportedly planned to divide ...

A new chronicle of redwood logging exposes how a cadre of wealthy industrialists reaped a fortune in the name of environmentalism. If handled poorly, a history of the so-called Redwood Wars ...

2 brothers, Samuel and Alexander Duncan, were Irish immigrants and part of the county’s 19th-century redwood lumber boom Twenty years before they arrived, John Cooper constructed the county’s ...

Redwood groves, a creek ... the Laurel Mill Lodge property was a hub for lumber processing operations as well as a railway line and train stop to serve the mill and train passengers, part of ...

The garden kits include redwood lumber and soil courtesy of Big Creek and garden tools donated by Orgill, and all kits are delivered directly to the schools so they can assemble and use immediately.