How to Use coast redwood in a Sentence

coast redwood

noun
  • In the canopy of a 300-foot old-growth coast redwood, the going gets weird.
    NBC News, 28 July 2019
  • The tip-to-tip height of the scroll is the height of a small coast redwood, one of the defining trees of Powers’s book.
    Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The coast redwoods are shrouded in cool fog in summer, but that weather also brings the most crowds.
    Jill K. Robinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Back under the coast redwood tree, a pair of Swedes enjoying the shade had replaced the group of Jamaican fans.
    oregonlive, 17 July 2022
  • The shoots from stumps of felled coast redwoods are each capable of becoming a full-size tree.
    Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Anyone caught in the area of the towering coast redwood is now subject to a $5,000 fine or six months behind bars.
    Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2022
  • One of three redwood species, the giant sequoia is not the world’s tallest tree; that crown belongs to its northern cousin, the coast redwood.
    Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
  • But now that it’s been mapped for both the sequoia and coast redwood genome, there are all sorts of opportunities that can grow from that.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • And, unlike the coast redwood that can sprout again after a fire as long as most of their bark is intact — giant sequoias, not so much.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Sequoia sempervirens, or the coast redwood, thrives in the damp climate along the Pacific Ocean.
    Becki Robins, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2019
  • What people do have to boast about are trees — California's iconic coast redwoods, the tallest trees on Earth.
    Author: Hailey Branson-Potts, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The coast redwood forest had been publicly owned, but was transferred to private ownership with the Timber and Stone Act of 1878.
    Jim Robbins Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For the first time, scientists are mapping the coast redwood’s genome, a genetic code 12 times larger than that of a human being.
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Virtually all coast redwoods grow in a narrow, fog-laden strip from Big Sur to southern Oregon.
    Author: Hailey Branson-Potts, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Here are five Santa Cruz County spots to experience coast redwoods at their best.
    Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Starting in the 1850s, loggers began cutting them down, including a massive stand in Oakland that researchers say might have contained the largest coast redwoods in the world.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The report found that half of the remaining coast redwood trees are very young, with an average trunk diameter of just 8 inches.
    Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The endangered California condor returned to soar the skies over the state's far northern coast redwood forests on Tuesday for the first time in more than a century.
    CBS News, 4 May 2022
  • The coast redwood is more slender and is native near the Pacific Ocean in Northern California.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Moon trees planted in California, coast redwoods all, still stand.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
  • Today’s shapers craft surfboards with modern materials such as polyurethane foam or with wood such as balsa and coast redwood.
    Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 22 July 2019
  • As California’s climate changes to one of extremes and humans continue to harvest, the only coast redwoods on the planet are in peril.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Last week’s extreme winds caused one section of a large coast redwood tree to shear off while another part catapulted onto a bamboo grove and a legendary buckeye tree.
    Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The coast redwoods, ancient and threatened, mix with towering Douglas firs and opportunistic tanoaks throughout this restoration project on a mountaintop just miles from the sea.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The Sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, entered a sort of plant limbo in the darkness, neither growing nor showing visible signs of decline.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • The range of plant life along the creek is phenomenal: Towering ponderosa pines, with bark resembling rose-pink snakeskin, compete in height with coast redwoods, mixed in with California black oaks, cedars, madronas and more.
    Brian J. Cantwell, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Still, researchers say, while coast redwoods remain the dominant tree over much of their original range, only 22 percent of that ecosystem has been fully protected.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • California’s oldest state park, home to coast redwood trees as tall as skyscrapers and dating back to the Roman Empire, suffered extensive damage in this month’s massive fires.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Even today, only about a quarter of the coast redwood habitat is protected from commercial logging and development.
    CBS News, 1 July 2018
  • Mailliard Ranch contains the largest coast redwood forest under private family ownership.
    Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021

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