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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 ...
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 Book of Three Circles (by White Wolf Publishing): The first version of a book detailing sorcery in the world of Exalted. The book contains sorcerous spells for Terrestrial, Celestial and Solar Circle spells, as well as other works of wonder, details on demesnes, manses and hearthstones, and an appendix on War Striders.
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.
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 Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
John Lawson Stoddard (April 24, 1850 – June 5, 1931) was an American lecturer, author and photographer. [1] [2] He was a pioneer in the use of the stereopticon or magic lantern, adding photographs to his popular lectures about his travels around the world. [2]
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.