Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reported

If you didn’t know any better, you might look out over the forested valley at the edge of the Oakland hills and fail to notice Old Survivor among its fellow redwoods. It’s a bit taller than the others, though, and certainly scragglier. The branches at its crown are cartoonishly crooked; up close, its trunk is covered in burls. This is partially what saved its life.

Read more and see photo at Oakland’s last old-growth redwood is a gnarled, twisted icon