walking along
Gravity
A view from Miner's Ridge Trail, Prairie Creek. Redwood National Park.
To answer a question concerning the title, from someone who is "curious".
No.....just many living tons, standing hundreds of feet tall on their roots and base.
Redwood trees don't senesce. The tree dies, (after up to thousands of years), when blown over by a big wind, (hundred year storm?), demonstrating the "gravity" of their situation, in more ways than one.
High up In the canopy, and located in the crooks of human trunk sized limbs, are large fern "gardens", complete with year long pools containing fairy shrimp and a unique salamander which feed on them. These gardens, with plants, animals, duff and soil, but not including the tree itself, may each weigh up to a ton.
Gravity
A view from Miner's Ridge Trail, Prairie Creek. Redwood National Park.
To answer a question concerning the title, from someone who is "curious".
No.....just many living tons, standing hundreds of feet tall on their roots and base.
Redwood trees don't senesce. The tree dies, (after up to thousands of years), when blown over by a big wind, (hundred year storm?), demonstrating the "gravity" of their situation, in more ways than one.
High up In the canopy, and located in the crooks of human trunk sized limbs, are large fern "gardens", complete with year long pools containing fairy shrimp and a unique salamander which feed on them. These gardens, with plants, animals, duff and soil, but not including the tree itself, may each weigh up to a ton.