2021 Coverage
- BBC Wildlife: Save the Redwoods League featured in “Living Giants” (10-12-21)
- CNN: the League mentioned in “Hundreds of giant sequoias may have burned as the Complex Fire rages in California” (10-8-21)
- Santa Cruz Sentinel: the League mentioned in “Mill Creek waters run free after dam removed in San Vicente Redwoods” (10-3-21)
- Del Norte Triplicate: Assemblymember Jim Wood mentions the League in “Wood secures $15 million for Redwoods Rising Project” (9-27-21)
- Los Angeles Times: The League featured in “As fires threaten the Ancient Ones, sequoia lovers wonder what else will no longer endure” (9-23-21)
- NBC Nightly News: The League’s Sam Hodder quoted in “Inside race to save world’s largest tree from wildfire” (9-21-21)
- The Today Show: The League featured in “Efforts underway to save giant sequoia trees from California wildfires” (9-20-21)
- The Weather Channel: The League’s Joanna Nelson talks about how wildfires are affecting sequoia trees (9-19-21)
- San Francisco Chronicle: The League’s Joanna Nelson quoted in “Wildfire reaches Giant Forest, firefighters prepared to protect foil-wrapped General Sherman tree” (9-17-21)
- Washington Post: The League’s Tim Borden quoted in “Wildfire threatens historic trees at Sequoia National Park. Fireproof blankets are the defense.” (9-17-21)
- Mercury News: The League quoted in “Sequoia National Park fire: Crews wrapping world’s largest trees with fireproof blankets” (9-16-21)
- Monterey Herald: The League mentioned in “State Sen. John Laird joins Coastal Conservancy board” (9-9-21)
- ABC 7: The League mentioned in “Sierra Nevada Sequoias sprouting new life after battling drought, fires” (9-7-21)
- CNN: The League featured in “Majestic sequoia trees can live for thousands of years. Climate change could wipe them out (9-7-21)
- Daily Kos: The League quoted in “CA bill would require CALFIRE to work with indigenous leaders” (9-3-21)
- SF Gate: The League mentioned in “Muir Woods park staff annotates own signs with historical corrections for racism, misogyny” (8-26-21)
- The Economist Radio: The League quoted in “Wildfires, soaring temperatures and water shortages—does nature have the upper hand in the American West?” (8-13-21)
- Daily Kos: The League and Redwood Rising mentioned in “Yurok Youth Ask Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland About State of North Coast Salmon, Climate Crisis” (8-12-21)
- The U.S. Department of the Interior: The League highlighted in “Secretary Haaland, CEQ Chair Mallory Highlight Conservation, Climate Resiliency Efforts in Visit to California’s Redwood Forests” (8-11-21)
- Mercury News: The League quoted in “Big Basin Redwoods: One year after devastating fire, burned wreckage cleared, rebuilding planning just starting” (8-12-21)
- The Sun-Gazette: The League mentioned in “Coalition formed to protect sequoias from wildfires” (8-4-21)
- Kern Valley Sun: The League mentioned in “Coalition formed to protect sequoia trees after Castle Fire” (8-4-21)
- AFAR Magazine: The League listed as one of the six biodiversity hot spots around the world (7-23-21)
- San Francisco Business Times: The League welcomes Joanna Nelson to the team (7-7-21)
- Sunset: The League helps reopen popular Big Sur trail 12 years after it went up in flames (6-23-21)
- Frommers: Thanks to The League and CA State Parks, a favorite hike through California redwoods is back after more than a decade (6-22-21)
- People.com: The League mentioned in “A Stunning Hiking Trail Through the Redwoods Destroyed by Wildfire Is Reopening After 13 Years” (6-17-21)
- CBS Los Angeles: The League mentioned in “Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Falls Trail Reopens Friday 13 Years After Being Destroyed By Wildfire” (6-17-21)
- The Fresno Bee: The League aids the California State Parks in reopening Pfeiffer Falls trail (6-16-21)
- Yahoo! News: The League joins efforts with the California State Parks to reopen a popular Big Sur trail (6-16-21)
- Lonely Planet: The League and California State Parks combine efforts to reopen Pfeiffer Falls trail (6-15-21)
- San Francisco Business Times: The League mentioned in “The quiet strength of an old-growth forest” (6-16-21)
- New York Times: The League mentioned in “The Quiet Strength of an Old-Growth Forest” (6-15-21)
- CNN: The League helps reopen Pfeiffer Falls trail (6-15-21)
- The League and CA State Parks join forces to reopen a popular trail in Big Sur (6-14-21)
- NBC News (National): The League and California State Parks partner up to reopen Pfeiffer Falls (6-14-21)
- San Jose Mercury News: The League helps fund restoration of Pfeiffer Falls trail (6-14-21)
- SF Chronicle: The League helps fund restoration of trail at Pfeiffer Falls (6-14-21)
- KQED Radio Forum features The League: 10% of world’s sequoias wiped out by one wildfire (6-4-21)
- LA Times spotlights The League: As wildfires destroy giant sequoia, California faces unprecedented loss (6-5-21)
- Fresno Bee: Fire destroyed thousands of giant sequoia. What’s happening now? (6-6-21)
- MSN Latino mentions the League: Mientras los incendios forestales destruyen la secuoya gigante, California enfrenta una pérdida sin precedentes (“As wildfires destroy giant sequoia, California faces unprecedented loss”) (6-6-21)
- SF Chronicle: League featured: 10% of world’s sequoias killed in California’s 2020 Castle Fire” (6-3-21)
- Visalia Times Delta: The League quoted in “Castle Fire may have killed 10% of giant sequoias” (6-1-21)
- San Jose Mercury News: The League’s Sam Hodder quoted in “State commits $186 million to wildfire rebuilding at Big Basin Park” (5-14-21)
- Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mill Creek Dam in San Vicente Redwoods to be removed (features The League) (4-28-21)
- SF Chronicle: The League’s partnership spotlighted in “When old dam in Santa Cruz mountains comes down, coho salmon will be free to swim again” (4-30-21)
- Associated Press: “Resilient Redwood Forest A Beacon of Hope” features Save the Redwoods League’s work (4-23-21)
- San Jose Mercury News: “Slow progress in Big Basin after wildfire” spotlights Save the Redwoods League’s work (4-23-21)
- Fresno Bee OpEd by the League’s Sam Hodder: Forest-cleaning fires will sustain giant sequoia (3-26-21)
- Yahoo! News: OpEd by the League’s Sam Hodder: How we can prevent wildfires from destroying sequoias again (3-22-21)
- Los Angeles Times OpEd by the League’s Sam Hodder: How we can prevent wildfires from destroying sequoias again (3-22-21)
- SF Gate: More than 6 months later, Big Basin is still burning (League mentioned) 3-4-21
- ScienMag Science Magazine: League mentioned in “Low Level Thinning Can Help Restore Redwood Forests” (3-1-21)
- Springer Nature Magazine: (Related to League’s Genome project): “Models and Career Makers” (3-01-21)
- Nature Magazine: (Related to League’s Genome project) “Model Organisms on Road Less Travelled” (2-24-21)
- SF Chronicle: League spotlighted in “Deal Protects Redwood Forest in Anderson Valley” (2-22-21)
- San Jose Mercury News highlights the League’s $24.7 m. deal to preserve Redwoods (2-19-21)
- Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Save the Redwoods League’s efforts highlighted in “Mailliard Ranch Redwoods Are Saved Forever” (2-13-21)
- Santa Rosa Press Democrat: The League is featured in “Mendocino County Old Growth Redwood Forest Protected in $24.7 million conservation deal” (2-10-21)
- CNET: Save the Redwoods League featured in “Redwoods Are Made To Survive Fire” (2-3-21)
- San Francisco Chronicle: The League’s Sam Hodder quoted in article about Newsom’s new proposed wildfire mitigation budget (1-9-21)
- MSN: Save The Redwoods League Featured In “Can California’s Redwoods Survive Wildfires?” (1-7-21)
- Half Moon Bay Review: Save The Redwoods League Buys Cascade Creek (1-7-21)
- National Geographic: Save the Redwoods League Featured in “Can California’s Redwoods Survive Wildfires?” (1-6-21)
- MSN Australia: Year in Review – 50 Stunning Images: Ecological Impact of Fire on Sequoias (1-3-21)
- KCBS Radio: Abandoned dam in Santa Cruz mountains to be demolished (features The League) (4-28-21)
- Part 1: KCBS Radio covers Save the Redwoods League’s $24.7 million land deal for Mailliard Ranch (2-22-21)
- Part 2: KCBS Radio covers Save the Redwoods League’s $24.7 million land deal for Mailliard Ranch (2-22-21)
- Capital Public Radio, Sacramento: Save the Redwoods League’s Sam Hodder responds to CA Governor Newsom’s new proposed budget and funding for wildfire prevention (1/11/21)
- KVPR Valley Public Radio interviews New York Times’ John Branch about his recent Redwoods and Wildfires article spotlighting Save the Redwoods League (1/8/21)
- NBC News (National): “California wildfires threaten iconic trees” features Save the Redwoods League (5-30-21)
- KPIX TV 5 (CBS San Francisco): The League featured in “California’s Redwoods Hold Key To Climate Change” (5-17-21)
- KFMB 8 (CBS San Diego): “California’s Redwood Trees: Only 5% Remain” features Save the Redwoods League (4-20-21)
- PBS TV “Bay Area Bountiful” – POST and Save the Redwoods League highlighted in Sempervirens Means Evergreen (4-8-21)
- NBC Los Angeles: The League offers tips on how to “Get to know the flowers among the redwoods” (3-23-21)
- NBC Bay Area: League helps preserve Northern California Redwoods Forest in $24.7 m. deal (2-22-21)
Past Audio Coverage
- Capitol Public Radio (Sacramento) – “After Drought/Wildfires, Redwoods Face A New Enemy” (12/11/20)
- KCBS Radio: Save the Redwoods League Buys Huge Sequoia Grove
- Jefferson Public Radio: Save the Redwoods League’s Emily Burns – “Redwood Partners Succeed In Sequencing Tree Genome”
- Radiolab: Asking for Another Friend
- KQED Radio: Save the Redwoods League’s Emily Burns discusses the League’s Genome Project
- Radiolab: Emily Burns sheds light about Save The Redwoods League’s about Genome Project
- KSRO Radio: Emily Burns spotlights the League’s Genome Project
- This Fire Chief Says Wildfires Can Be Good For The Forest
Past Video Coverage
- KTVU TV Channel 2 (Fox-Oakland): Save The Redwoods League Protects Open Spaces at Cascade Creek (12/9/20)
- Party on for the Redwoods and Raise Funds for the Future – NBC Los Angeles (9/27/20)
- Inside the Battle to Protect Thousand-Year-Old Redwoods From the California Wildfires – NBC LX (9/23/20)
- One Way to Prevent Massive Wildfires? Burning Forests Intentionally – NBC LX (9/17/20)
- Big Basin Redwoods State Park not expected to open for at least a year – KSBW (NBC Monterey/Salinas)
- California’s oldest state park, Big Basin, suffers extensive damage because of wildfire – KTVU (FOX San Francisco)
- Wildfire Damage at Big Basin State Park Extensive but Largest Redwoods Should Survive – KPIX (CBS San Francisco)
- Old Growth Forest In Santa Cruz Mountains Sold To Save The Redwoods League For $9M – KPIX (CBS San Francisco)
- Save The Redwoods Seeks To Buy World’s Largest Remaining Private Giant Sequoia Forest For $15M – KPIX (CBS San Francisco)
- Save The Redwoods Seeks To Buy Private Giant Sequoia Forest For $15M – KPIX (CBS San Francisco)
- Largest giant sequoia property to be preserved in $15.6M deal with California conservation group – KTVU (FOX San Francisco)
- “The Secret Grove” with Gadi Schwartz – NBC Nightly News
- Science unveils secrets of world’s tallest trees (KTVU)
- KTVL reports from the Grove of Titans for Save the Redwoods
- Is DNA the key to protecting Earth’s tallest species? (CNN)
- Science on the SPOT: Measuring Redwood Giants (KQED)
- Save the Redwoods League (ABC 7)
- Save the Redwoods League offers free admission to 40 California redwoods state parks – KTVU-TV (FOX San Francisco)
Past Print & Online Coverage
2020
- Smithsonian Magazine invites hikers to join Save The Redwoods League’s Redwood Watch (12-29-20)
- Los Angeles Times: Big Basin Receives more than $500,000 to help redwoods recovery from wildfires (12/18/20)
- San Francisco Chronicle: Save the Redwoods League and Sempervirens Fund raise more than $540,000 to help restore Big Basin Redwoods State Park (12/16/20)
- New York Times: Save the Redwoods League comments on how California’s wildfires affected redwood trees (12/10/20)
- MSN.com – Han muerto cientos de imponentes secuoyas gigantes por el incendio de Castle: una pérdida impresionante (11/18/20)
- LA Times – Hundreds of Giant Sequoia Killed in Castle Fire (11/16/20)
- Backpacker.com – What Backpacking Lost in the California Fires (11/11/20)
- Financial Times – Wish I were there: the glory of California’s redwoods (10/20/20)
- San Francisco Chronicle – Why We Need Redwoods to Fight Climate Change (9/25/20)
- Capital Public Radio – Wildfires In California Will ‘Continue To Get Worse,’ Climate Change Experts Explore Why
- Scientific American – Can Redwoods Survive the Devastating California Wildfires?
- The New York Times – Loss from wildfires grows in California
- NPR – Wildfires Hit California’s Redwoods And Condors, But There’s Still Hope
- Willits News – Save the Redwoods League announces Redwood Connect Grants
- Forbes – Try These Fun And Free Family Outdoor Activities In Your State
- Sunset – Senate Gives Public Lands Big Victory with Great American Outdoors Act
- SF Chronicle – New reason to conserve redwoods — they’re best at storing polluting carbon
- AFAR – World’s Largest Private Sequoia Grove Set to Become Public Land
- SF Chronicle – Big grove of old-growth Santa Cruz redwoods saved, helping species restoration
2019
September – December
- San Francisco Chronicle – Biggest private sequoia grove to be preserved in deal with Redwoods League
- The Mercury News – World’s largest privately owned giant sequoia forest sold for $15 million
- Los Angeles Times – Conservation group to buy Alder Creek giant sequoia grove and world’s fifth-largest tree
- Bay Nature Save the Redwoods Acquires A Forest of Giant Sequoias to Rival Mariposa Grove
- CNN.com – A California conservation group wants to buy world’s largest remaining private giant sequoia forest for $15 million
- AFAR – World’s Largest Private Sequoia Grove Set to Become Public Land
- Atlas Obscura – For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant Sequoias
- Benzinga – Save the Redwoods League to Protect “Crown Jewel” of the Remaining Giant Sequoia Forests
- Daily Kos – Conservation group to buy sequoias
- EcoWatch – Conservation Group to Buy World’s Largest Privately Held Sequoia Forest for $15M
- Good News Network – World’s Largest Remaining Private Giant Sequoia Forest May Soon Be Protected if These Donors Get Their Way
- Inside Hook – This Group Wants to Buy the Largest Private Giant Sequoia Grove. You Can Help
- Matador Network – The largest privately owned sequoia grove in the world is for sale
- Mother Nature Network – The world’s largest privately owned giant sequoia forest may soon be protected
- Nation of Change – Conservation group to buy world’s largest privately held sequoia forest for $15M
- NYC Epeak – World’s Largest Private Sequoia Grove Needs Your Help To Open To The Public
- One Green Planet – This California Non-Profit is Trying to Purchase a Giant Sequoia Forest to Conserve it!
- One Page News – Save The Redwoods Seeks To Buy Private Giant Sequoia Forest For $15M
- RISI – CA conservation group seeks to purchase largest privately owned giant sequoia forest
- Sierra2theSea – Redwood League to acquire private Tule Sequoia grove
- Smithsonian Online – World’s Largest Privately-Owned Giant Sequoia Grove Is for Sale
- SNEWS – This will be the Conservation Alliance’s biggest donation year ever
- Technorati – World’s Largest Privately Owned Giant Sequoia Forest Sold For $15 Million
- The Press Democrat – Save the Redwoods League buys world’s largest privately owned giant sequoia forest for $15 million
- TheStreet.com – Save The Redwoods League To Protect “Crown Jewel” Of The Remaining Giant Sequoia Forests
- The Sun-Gazette – Conservation group plans to purchase 530 acres of giant sequoias
- Tree Hugger – Conservation group to buy largest private sequoia forest in the world
- Usa Science News – World’s largest privately owned giant sequoia forest sold for $15 million
- Nob Hill Gazette – gala listed in Sept. magazine’s ‘Social Calendar’ for October
- Forbes – Breathe Easy: The World’s Fifth-Largest Tree And Its Grove Are Going To Be Protected
- The Guardian – ‘Once they’re gone, they’re gone’: the fight to save the giant sequoia
May – August
- CNET – Protecting the magic of the redwoods
- cnBETA.com – “Climate change is not a bad thing for California Redwoods”
- Redheaded Blackbelt – Save the Redwoods League names two new leaders
- Redheaded Blackbelt – ‘Redwoods Rising Student Apprentices Help Restore Redwood National and State Parks,’ Says Save the Redwoods League
- CNET – Troublemakers and Trailblazers: Taking tech to the edge
- CNET – Redwoods, birds and microphones: The quest to save an endangered species
- CNET – For California’s redwoods, climate change isn’t all bad
- CNET – Saving California’s redwoods, one tree at a time
- NBC News online – Cloning giant redwoods could help combat climate change
- NBC News online – Go inside a secret grove of centuries-old California redwoods
- Half Moon Bay Review – California scientists unlock hidden genetic codes of world’s tallest trees
- Marin Independent Journal – Genetic code of Marin redwoods sought for restoration
- Santa Cruz Sentinel – ‘Major breakthrough’: Genetic code cracked for California’s iconic redwoods
- Science & Technology Research News – Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia Mega-Genomes Sequenced
- ZME Science – Scientists sequence genomes of world’s tallest trees
- The Mercury News – State parks standstill: Why California hasn’t opened a new state park in 10 years
January – April
- San Francisco Chronicle – Science unveils secrets of world’s tallest trees
- SFGATE – California scientists unravel genetic mysteries of world’s tallest trees
- Popular Science – Researchers sequenced giant redwood genomes to kickstart a 23andMe for trees
- Sacramento Bee – ‘23andMe for trees’: UC Davis scientists map genome for two giant California trees
- YubaNet.com – Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia Mega-Genomes Sequenced
- Redheaded Blackbelt – A first step to protecting diversity: Scientists sequenced the coast redwood and giant sequoia genomes
- The Davis Enterprise – UCD, Save the Redwoods League launch genome project
- UC Davis – Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia Mega-Genomes Sequenced
- Johns Hopkins Medicine – Johns Hopkins Researchers Sequence Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia Mega-Genomes
- ZME Science – “Scientists sequence genomes of world’s tallest trees”
- The Mendocino Voice – “Redwood genome SEQUENCED!”
- The Mercury News – “Genetic code for California’s iconic trees uncovered”
- USA Science News – “Genetic code for California’s iconic trees uncovered”
- The Mercury News – Nearly 1,000 acres of redwood forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains preserved in $11.7 million deal
- Marin Independent Journal – Nearly 1,000 acres of redwood forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains preserved in $11.7 million deal
- National Geographic España – Sequoias, forest giants
- Landscape Architecture Magazine – GIANT STEPS
- The Santa Clarita Valley Signal – Plan your escape to see the big trees
- Patheos – Cathedral of the Woods: the Ancient Magic of the Redwoods
- North Coast Journal – Save the Redwoods League Will Dedicate Tree to Tony Smithers
- Medford Mail Tribune – Grove of Titans landed the big bucks
- North Coast Journal – Grove of Titans Preservation Project Makes $1M Goal
- Outside.com – Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve Is Going Public
- Inside Hook – A MYTHIC REDWOOD FOREST NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO IS OPENING TO THE PUBLIC
- Mother Nature Network – A once-secret redwoods reserve will soon be open to the public
- MSN Travel – This Ancient Redwood Forest Will Open to the Public for the First Time”
- Only In Your State – This Ancient American Redwood Forest Is Opening To The Public For The First Time Ever
- Real Clear – Majestic Redwood Forest Near San Francisco Will Open to the Public
- The Daily Californian – Save the Redwoods League book-launch event offers closer look at California’s forgotten coast redwoods
- The Points Guy – This Ancient Redwood Forest Will Open to the Public for the First Time
- The Press Democrat – Save the Redwoods League releases stunning book on 100th anniversary
2018
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