Learning Center | Save the Redwoods League

Students from San Francisco’s Balboa High School and Downtown Continuation High School visit the redwoods as part of the Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative program. Photo courtesy of WALC.
Maybe it began with that first exhilarating shock of splashing through an ice-cold forest creek. Perhaps it was the first time drifting to sleep soothed by redwood boughs creaking in the breeze. Or that first moment of quiet awe stepping into a giant...

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Visiting a redwood forest, it’s tempting to focus on the bigness of everything. We crane our necks skyward to glimpse treetops hundreds of feet in the air. We’re awestruck by tree trunks so massive, it can take half a minute just to walk around one....

What’s the scientific term for ”really big”? Apprentice Gonzalo Fernandez Rocha puts his measuring tape to the test. Photo by Neida Rodriguez.
Gonzalo Fernandez Rocha still remembers the moment he opened the email. After years of feeling stuck in dead-end jobs, he learned he’d been accepted into Save the Redwoods League’s giant sequoia apprenticeship program. This was his chance to build a...