The National Co-Champion coast redwood
The National Co-Champion coast redwood is found in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park and measures 307 feet tall, 895 inches in circumference and has an 85-foot crown spread, earning it 1,223 total points.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Kelley moved to New York City in 2006 and received his BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts. Kelley employs a mixedmedia approach — exhaustive research, slow and meditative composition, and the repurposing of photographic mediums — to reveal the artifacts of our predecessors. Kelley set off in May on what he figures may be a 10-year odyssey to photograph every one of American Forests’ Champion Trees — more than 700 of them — in large format. Kelley was born in Horseheads, N.Y., and currently lives in Brooklyn.