This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1915 Paul Popenoe gave 26 photos of giant trees to National Geographic. One of them was this shot mailed from San ...

James Aldred has always loved climbing trees. Here he returns to climb a Giant Redwood, affectionately called Goliath, which is the first tree he ever climbed using ropes. He stops off en route to ...

But for decades before that, each year a giant tree was selected from the community to be brought to Syracuse and hoisted into place before its public lighting. It was an amazing process to ...