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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.
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Sequoia National Park was first preserved as land set aside for recreation through a bill, Sept. 25, 1890, ch. 926, §1, 26 Stat. 478, passed by Congress and signed by President Benjamin Harrison on September 5, 1890, largely due to the efforts of Colonel George W. Stewart, who is known as the "Father of Sequoia National Park". [7]
Its base of up to about 50 feet (15 m) rivaled the General Sherman, the largest giant sequoia, for total mass. It died in the Castle Fire of 2020. [1] [2] The tree was once known as the California Tree, as shown in National Park Service promotional literature from 1917. The King Arthur was the ninth largest giant sequoia in the world.
On 6 July, the temperature at UCLA was 111 °F (43.9 °C), breaking the all-time high temperature record of 109 °F (42.8 °C) set in 1939 but still 6 °F (3.3 °C) lower than the record 117 °F (47.2 °C) set in Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles neighborhood, at about 1 p.m. local time the same day, according to the weather service. [29]
National Register of Historic Places in Sequoia National Park (20 P) Pages in category "Sequoia National Park" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
At least 9,456 were killed with estimates as high as 100,000 deaths. [71] ... and Sequoia National Park, home to the ... summer temperature extremes are ...
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).