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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024