#old growth redwoods

[pickleweed2]

a huge two-stem Redwood with beautiful trunk flare

Redwood National Park, California

#redwoods #forest floor #coastal forest #ancient trees #old growth forest #dendrophilia #redwood national park #public lands #forest photography #nature photography #landscape photography #original photographers #nikon photography #nikon #24mm-120mm #photographers on tumblr

[moss-sprouted]

minecraft cave generation now is truly wild, i havent seen lava generate like that in the overworld before and it was right next to a giant lush cave

#minecraft #mineblr #minecraft caves #and it was above a big old growth taiga with the big redwoods

[redshift-13]

It is a rocky, stormy, and wild coast, one that everywhere reveals nature at its most spectacular. There are the redwood groves of Northern California, the raging rivers of Southern Oregon, the Rogue Basin, and the Umpqua forest. There is the mouth of the Columbia River, with its huge waves and foaming breakers, where ocean currents and tides collide with the deadly bars. In Washington State, there are the breathtaking sea stacks of the Olympic National Park, the Hoh River, and Quinault River valleys. Also in the park are towering fir, cedar, and spruce trees draped in ghostly mosses. Then comes an inland sea, the Salish Sea, shared by Washington and British Columbia, where snow-laden mountains — the ten-thousand-foot Mt Baker and the eight-thousand-foot Mt Olympus — shelter idyllic islands whose waters are home to the last of the southern orcas.

#old growth forest #temperate rainforest #tongass national forest #redwoods #west coast #b.c. #california #oregon #alaska

[stinkybrowndogs]

Its pretty alright here

#dexter #brandy #redwoods #the top of the trail i dont think is old growth #but like 30 mins in #hoo baby #she green

[fixy8ed4xys]

trillium and sorrel underneath redwoods - Trillium Falls Trail

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, CA

[my 📷]

#redwoods #trillium #sorrel #old growth forest #forest ecology #my photo #my photography

[forestgreenivy]

Deep in the forest getting lost amongst the redwoods.

Muir Woods, California

#forestcore #forest #old growth forest #redwoods #san fransico #california #nature trail #outdoors #nature #adventure #travel #explore #photography #hiking #landscape #trees #mountains #camping #sierra nevada #western #trees and forests #rangercore #nature photography #forest green #muir woods #dm me #dms #me #message me #let’s talk

[valhikes]

Redwood National Park, California

Last #ThickTrunkTuesday, I got out into the old growth forests in Redwood National Park. Hiking Berry Glen, I can stop by a waterfall at one end and famous redwood grove at the other with exceptional trees all along the way.

#thick trunk Tuesday #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #day hike #California #redwoods #Redwood National Park #Trillium Falls #Lady Bird Johnson Grove #Humboldt County #Berry Glen #old growth forest #forest #big trees

[meatmensch]

this is castiel

#i took this picture <3 #castiel is ACTUALLY when u r in an old growth redwood forest and look up. i dont have any of those pics rn i need to take some. but this is #close enough for now 😈🥰🌲💚 #spn #my posts #nature #photography

[cainhowlett]

hanging with OG trees.

#art #california #mendocino #sonoma #bay area #nature #forest #old growth forest #trees #redwoods #sequoia sempervirens #picoftheday

[reasonsforhope]

Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds

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When lightning ignited fires around California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park north of Santa Cruz in August 2020, the blaze spread quickly. Redwoods naturally resist burning, but this time flames shot through the canopies of 100-meter-tall trees, incinerating the needles. “It was shocking,” says Drew Peltier, a tree ecophysiologist at Northern Arizona University. “It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die.”

Yet many of them lived. In a paper published yesterday in Nature Plants, Peltier and his colleagues help explain why: The charred survivors, despite being defoliated [aka losing all their needles], mobilized long-held energy reserves—sugars that had been made from sunlight decades earlier—and poured them into buds that had been lying dormant under the bark for centuries.

“This is one of those papers that challenges our previous knowledge on tree growth,” says Adrian Rocha, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Notre Dame. “It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.” The findings suggest redwoods have the tools to cope with catastrophic fires driven by climate change, Rocha says. Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.

Mild fires strike coastal redwood forests about every decade. The giant trees resist burning thanks to the bark, up to about 30 centimeters thick at the base, which contains tannic acids that retard flames. Their branches and needles are normally beyond the reach of flames that consume vegetation on the ground. But the fire in 2020 was so intense that even the uppermost branches of many trees burned and their ability to photosynthesize went up in smoke along with their pine needles.

Trees photosynthesize to create sugars and other carbohydrates, which provide the energy they need to grow and repair tissue. Trees do store some of this energy, which they can call on during a drought or after a fire. Still, scientists weren’t sure these reserves would prove enough for the burned trees of Big Basin.

Visiting the forest a few months after the fire, Peltier and his colleagues found fresh growth emerging from blackened trunks. They knew that shorter lived trees can store sugars for several years. Because redwoods can live for more than 2000 years, the researchers wondered whether the trees were drawing on much older energy reserves to grow the sprouts.

Average age is only part of the story. The mix of carbohydrates also contained some carbon that was much older. The way trees store their sugar is like refueling a car, Peltier says. Most of the gasoline was added recently, but the tank never runs completely dry and so a few molecules from the very first fill-up remain. Based on the age and mass of the trees and their normal rate of photosynthesis, Peltier calculated that the redwoods were calling on carbohydrates photosynthesized nearly 6 decades ago—several hundred kilograms’ worth—to help the sprouts grow. “They allow these trees to be really fire-resilient because they have this big pool of old reserves to draw on,” Peltier says.

It's not just the energy reserves that are old. The sprouts were emerging from buds that began forming centuries ago. Redwoods and other tree species create budlike tissue that remains under the bark. Scientists can trace the paths of these buds, like a worm burrowing outward. In samples taken from a large redwood that had fallen after the fire, Peltier and colleagues found that many of the buds, some of which had sprouted, extended back as much as 1000 years. “That was really surprising for me,” Peltier says. “As far as I know, these are the oldest ones that have been documented.”

... “The fact that the reserves used are so old indicates that they took a long time to build up,” says Susan Trumbore, a radiocarbon expert at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. “Redwoods are majestic organisms. One cannot help rooting for those resprouts to keep them alive in decades to come.”

-via Science, December 1, 2023

#redwoods #california #wildfire #climate change #extreme heat #natural disasters #botany #plant biology #photosynthesis #santa cruz #hopepunk #sustainability #climate hope #united states #good news #hope

[kp777]

#greenwashing #save the redwoods league #california #redwoods #old growth forest

[wishfindergeneral]

So in conclusion, the redwoods are magical ✨️

#redwoods #california #redwood forest #magical forest #old growth forest

[napa-valley01]

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#Old Growth Redwood Burls Napa

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#Old Growth Redwood Burls Napa

[mutant-distraction]

Kanha So

The Grandfather Tree

Redwood Country of Northern California.

This old growth is better than 1800 years old.

[fixy8ed4xys]

Today and yesterday I walked amongst these magnificent creatures whose homes are the Northern California and Oregon coast regions. For thousands of years, indigenous people lived in harmony with the redwood forests. In 120 years, American people, capitalism, greed and disregard for the environment, slaughtered 95% of these creatures while also destroying the fragile ecosystems dependent upon their existence.  

#redwoods #old growth forest #ecology #environmental destruction #logging #clear cuts #my photo #my photography