a documentary about the coast redwoods at a local film festival. I mean, how could I not? They’re the tallest trees on the planet, reaching over 300 feet into the sky. There are whole ecosystems in their crowns; animals and. And they are highly adaptable, growing two kinds of needles — one that absorbs light, another that takes in water, allowing the trees to simultaneously take advantage of both moist and dry conditions. They communicate with each other through vast shallow interlacing root systems that extend over 100 feet from the base of each tree, which means that they literally hold each other up.
