"No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree," the novelist John Steinbeck once wrote. "The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe ..

No redwood road trip is complete without driving down Avenue of the Giants. For about 30 miles you will pass redwood after redwood.

and his team measure a re cave in a massive redwood in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Wild res have twice burned this tree but failed to kill it. The trees have another trick foresters love.