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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and the recreational climbers who climbed them. It is a narrative-style collection of stories from climbers who pioneered redwood climbing, including botanist Steve Sillett , lichenologist Marie ...
The tree is called Japanese cedar [3] or Japanese redwood [4] [5] in English. It has been extensively introduced and cultivated for wood production on the Azores . Cone and seed
The cabin included all the amenities built to merge into the surrounding wilderness. He was taken care in later life by two of his sisters. They used his Travel Log as a sewing room and donated it in 1994 to the Humboldt Redwood Interpretive Association. [5] [12] Kellogg wrote an autobiographical book Charles Kellogg, the nature singer, his ...
In 2006, Sillett measured and verified the redwood Hyperion as the world's tallest tree at 115.55 m (379.1 ft). Previous record-holder Stratosphere Giant is 112.83 m (370.5 ft). [6] Sillett is the first holder of the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Cal Poly Humboldt. This is the world's first and only endowed chair ...
The discovery was confirmed and made public in 2004, displacing the Mendocino Tree, another coast redwood, from the record books. [3] The tree has continued to grow and measured 113.11 m (371.1 ft) in 2010 and 113.61 m (372.7 ft) in 2013. [4] It is a specimen of the species Sequoia sempervirens, the Coast Redwood.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia , one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae.
Sigil, the "City of Doors", is located atop the Spire in the Outlands.It has the shape of a torus, and the city itself is located on the inner surface of the ring.There is no sky, simply an all-pervasive light that waxes and wanes to create day and night.
Logbook of the World (LoTW) is a web-accessed database provided by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) to implement a contact verification service among amateur radio operators. Using LoTW, radio amateurs (hams) are able to claim and verify contacts (QSOs) made with other amateurs, generally for claiming credit for operating awards, such as ...