Pacific Lumber Company, which owns the trees in which the two women are sitting, along with more ancient redwoods than any other private logging company, is well aware of them.

He clambered through dark groves of ancient redwoods, green and cold.

There, amidst the ancient redwoods, he founded an accredited college, University of the Trees.

Scotians feared rapid depletion of the ancient redwoods would eliminate the area's economic base, which is dependent on milling them.

America's only significant privately held stand of ancient redwoods might soon be destroyed by a failed Texas savings-and-loan owner.

Tree-sitting has long been employed by environmentalists to the north in their fight to preserve ancient redwoods.

Northern California politicians and newspapers have hailed the agreement, which would save 84 percent of the ancient redwoods owned by the Pacific Lumber Company, or Palco.

Since it was established, the League has protected over 189,000 acres of ancient redwoods.

That grove of ancient redwoods, including one that is more than 2,000 years old, is considered the largest old-growth redwood forest in the world.

In a surprise decision, state officials have limited harvesting of ancient redwoods in a Northern California forest that has become the focus of an environmental battle.