Essays Tagged: "Redwood National and State Parks"

California's Coastal Redwoods: Nature's Giants

Myers 8California's Coastal Redwoods: Nature's GiantsHaving dominated the northern hemisphere before the last ice age, Californi ... ate University named Stephen "Steve" Sillett became the first person to ascend into the canopy of a Redwood. Since his first ascent, Sillett has climbed, measured, and studied hundreds of towering Cal ... d their environment as possible, Sillett and his crew spent eight years studying a two acre plot of Redwood forest from roots to crown. In this space, he discovered that there is more biomass in a Red ...

(6 pages) 3 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology