Jack Dykinga / Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) in a meadow beneath redwood trees, Del Norte Redwoods National Park, California, USA. June

Jack Dykinga / Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) in a meadow beneath redwood trees, Del Norte Redwoods National Park, California, USA. June

Ingo Arndt / High angle shot of Redwood tree {Metasequoia sp} Redwood NP, California, USA

Tim Fitzharris / Rhododendron (Rhododendron sp) flowers and Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) trees in fog, Redwood National Park, California

Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

Jeff Foott / Pacific Rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) flowering in old growth Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest, Redwood National Park, California

Jeff Foott / Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and Oak (Quercus sp) trees, Redwood National Park, California

Chris Mattison / Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) Sierra Nevada, California, USA, May.

Inaki Relanzon / Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in Sequoia National Park, California, USA.