Coast Redwood Primer

Coastal redwoods (brief outline) for more detailed information
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• 18-20 feet in diameter
• The tallest coast redwood  367.8 feet 44 feet around at its base
• do not die of old age
• The oldest recorded lived to more than 2200 years
• one seed in a million will likely produce a mature standing tree.
• Coast Redwoods survive in the dry summers by capturing fog (fog drip) 
• coast redwood roots are very shallow but spread out from the tree as far as 125 feet 
• by "holding hands" underground, the roots form a network that allows the trees to withstand even great storms.
• Sequoia sempervirens  produced  greatest biomass ever recorded: 1500-tons per acre, more than eight times that found in mature tropical rain forests
•  a single ancient tree can yield as much as 360,000 board feet of lumber, enough to build 22 houses
•  back to the Mesozoic era – the time of the dinosaurs – between 65 and 225 million years ago.

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