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Richard preston born august 5, 1954 is a writer for the new yorker and bestselling author who has written books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, redwoods and other subjects, as well as fiction. His tale begins in 1987 with a group of college students visiting one of californias state forests to climb a tall redwood. The bestselling author of the hot zone takes a closeup look at the worlds tallest trees, the coast redwoods that grow only in the coastal regions of california, and at the previously unknown ecosystem that the trees form high in the air in the forest canopy, profiling the. Jan 01, 2007 the wild trees is at its best when describing this hidden world. As for the trees themselves, water that flows into a giant redwood through its roots takes two weeks or longer to reach the top of the tree, moving slowly upward through the trees sapwood. The wild trees by richard preston native tree society. Richard preston ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. The coast redwood tree grows in valleys and on slopes of mountains along the coast of central and. Apr 10, 2007 until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered.