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Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, in the United States. It was established on September 25, 1890. The park spans 1,635.18 km2. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 4,000 m, the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 4,421 m above sea level. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service together as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
The park is famous for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, one of the largest trees on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten largest trees in the world. The Giant Forest is connected by the Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other giant sequoias. The park's giant sequoia forests are part of 81,921 ha of old-growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Indeed, the parks preserve a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.
The General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on earth. The General Sherman Tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to the Hyperion tree, a Coast redwood), nor is it the widest (both the largest cypress and largest baobab have a greater diameter), nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to a Great Basin bristlecone pine). With a height of 83.8 meters, a diameter of 7.7 m, an estimated bole volume of 1,487 m3, and an estimated age of 2,300–2,700 years, it is nevertheless among the tallest, widest and longest-lived of all trees on the planet.
While the General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest tree known to humans. The Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15 to 25% larger than the General Sherman tree by volume. The tree was cut down in the mid-1940s.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman_%28tree%29)
Title: Fallen Photographer: Janice Marie Foote Location: Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Arnold, CA
General Grant Tree, the second largest tree in the world (by volume)! - Kings Canyon National Park, CA, USA
Located on old Highway 101 in North Ukiah, the Redwood Tree Service Station was built in 1936 from a 1,500 year old redwood tree.
They claim to be the "World's Largest Redwood Tree Service Station", but since that's a category of one, it's not a hard claim to boast. And actually It hasn't been a gas station in some time now, serving as a museum with old photos of the building. So really the claim should be "World's Largest Redwood Tree Museum That Used to be a Service Station"
Awe-inspiring Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, trees in General Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA
I love trees. There is no question about this. When walking through the woods, aside from mosquito's or horse flys, I am completely at peace. Trees are one of the many things in nature that continue to amaze me which is nice since I do not need to travel very far to be surrounded by them.
Giant sequoia's and the coastal redwoods have always been something that I have wanted to see. They were (and should be for everyone) on the bucket list of things I wanted to see before I die and thankfully I have seen them twice.
To express the sense of scale of these trees at the least is difficult and at the most, damn near impossible. The scale typically does not carry over. I mean when you have a grove of trees which are relatively the same size (which is HUGE), the massive size does not carry over to a captured image.
I think though, in this shot with Shuppe in it, you can start to get an idea of the game these giants are playing.
Whats that you say? You don't know anything about Sequoia's or you have not brushed up on them recently? Well by all means head on over here to read up on them.
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Fog in the high altitude forest with moss covered giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park, California, USA, North America. You can download this photo as a free desktop wallpaper here:
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