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Included on Forest Service GSNM map. Alder Creek Grove: Giant Sequoia National Monument Sequoia National Forest Private land 2,120 6,960 Also known as Hossack, Pixley, or Ross Creek Grove. Home of 'Stagg', the 5th largest giant sequoia in the world. Also home to the now-deceased Waterfall tree, which had the largest ground perimeter of any sequoia.
Nelder Grove, located in the western Sierra Nevada within the Sierra National Forest in Madera County, California, is a Giant sequoia grove that was formerly known as Fresno Grove. The grove is a 1,540-acre (6.2 km 2 ) tract containing 60 mature Giant Sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) trees, the largest concentration of giant sequoias in the ...
Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving two groves of giant sequoia trees. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Arnold, California in the middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada, it has been a major tourist attraction since 1852, when the existence of the trees was first widely reported.
Sequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The U.S. National Forest is named for the majestic Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees which populate 38 distinct groves within the boundaries of the forest. The Giant Sequoia National Monument is located in the national
The Giant Forest, famed for its giant sequoia trees, is within the United States' Sequoia National Park.This montane forest, situated at over 6,000 ft (1,800 m) above mean sea level in the western Sierra Nevada of California, covers an area of 1,880 acres (7.6 km 2).
Sequoia National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California.The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects 404,064 acres (631 sq mi; 163,519 ha; 1,635 km 2) [2] of forested mountainous terrain.
General Grant tree, General Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, 2007. Giant sequoias occur naturally in only one place on Earth—the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, on moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys [8] at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,400 meters (5,000 to 8,000 ft) above mean sea level.
The Giant Sequoia National Monument is a 328,000-acre (512 sq mi) U.S. National Monument located in the southern Sierra Nevada in eastern central California.It is administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Sequoia National Forest and includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves that are located in the Sequoia National Forest, about half of the sequoia ...