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Whale Gulch School in Mendocino County functions like any other school, with the help of solar panels and a lot of ingenuity.

During the day, Shoveller Drive in Suisun City looks like any other neighborhood, but at the stroke of 6 p.m. one house lights up brighter than all the others.

Months before snow turns the foothills of Tuolumne County white, the faint hum of a Zamboni can be heard grooming the ice at the Long Barn Lodge.

It’s one of just three living Redwood trees that people can drive a car through.

Moving a 5-ton, 85-foot-tall tree nearly 4,000 miles is no easy task, but the U.S. Forest Service is pulling it off.

Below the Topatopa mountains, hiding among the orchards of Santa Paula, there’s a campground with a whole lot going on.

How the perfect combination of disaster and environment turned a Calistoga, CA forest from wood to stone.

Experience the wood wide web of the Redwood Sky Walk | Bartells Backroads From the high vantage point of the Sky Walk, you can actually see the "wood wide web" at work. Ferns, fungi, and other forest foliage thrive here. Author: John Bartell Updated: 7:27 PM PDT July 23, 2021 EUREKA, Calif. — Towering over the town of Eureka, Calif. is a thick forest of large second-growth redwoods. Their lush green branches take up so much space that pictures or video rarely g...

Californias Old Faithful still gushing, but drought taking its toll | Bartells Backroads The more groundwater that hits the volcanic magma, the more frequent the Calistoga Geyser blows. But during a drought year, the geyser is a little less faithful. Author: John Bartell Updated: 6:38 PM PDT July 9, 2021 CALISTOGA, Calif. — Reminders of ancient volcanic activity are still present all over Napa Valley. It’s partly because of that old volcanic activity that the...

Californias Old Faithful still gushing, but drought taking its toll | Bartells Backroads John Bartell Californias Old Faithful geyser is still gushing but the drought is taking its toll | Bartells Backroads Replay Video UP NEXT Reminders of ancient volcanic activity are still present all over Napa Valley. It’s partly because of that old volcanic activity that the grapes in this region grow so well, but sitting in the little town of Calistoga, that volcanic activity is still a...