Metasequoia glyptostroboides at the Chinese Temple in Oroville, California. Photos courtesy of the author. The deciduous redwood tree, Metasequoia, was thought to be extinct when a fossil of it was first “discovered” in China by Shigeru Miki in 1941 or [...]

If you take a wrong step or load the crane too heavily, gravity could deposit you in the creek after a second or two of fall on a granite slope. That’s if you didn’t pull down one of six 60,000-volt [...]