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2. Ishi Giant - Wikipedia

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   Ishi Giant is a giant sequoia in California, United States. It is located in Kennedy Grove, which is part of a group of eight closely spaced giant sequoia groves situated in Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada in eastern central California. It was the 14th largest giant sequoia in the world before it atrophied during the Rough Fire in ...

3. Ishi - Wikipedia

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   Ishi Giant, an exceptionally large giant sequoia discovered by naturalist Dwight M. Willard in 1993, is named in his honor. Ishi was the subject of a portrait relief sculpture by Thomas Marsh in his 1990 work, Called to Rise, featuring twenty such panels of noteworthy San Franciscans, on the facade of the 25-story high-rise at 235 Pine Street ...

4. List of largest giant sequoias - Wikipedia

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   Challenge of the big trees:a resource history of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (1st ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. ISBN 978-1-878441-00-3. Otter, FL; Dulitz, DJ; Otter, JI; Otter, MK (2007). The history of a giant sequoia forest: the story of Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest. Springville ...

5. Methuselah (sequoia tree) - Wikipedia

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   The Methuselah Tree is a giant sequoia located in Mountain Home State Forest, a sequoia grove located in Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada in eastern California. It is the 28th largest giant sequoia in the world, and could be considered the 27th largest depending on how badly Ishi Giant atrophied during the Rough Fire in 2015. [1] [2]

6. Sequoia National Park - Wikipedia

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   Sherman Tree Trail An 0.8-mile roundtrip paved trail that descends from the parking lot to the base of the General Sherman tree and meanders through a grove of giant sequoia trees. Tunnel Log is a fallen giant sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park. The tree, which measured 275 feet (84 m) tall and 21 feet (6.4 m) in diameter, fell across a park ...

7. General Sherman (tree) - Wikipedia

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   While it is the largest tree known, the General Sherman tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to Hyperion, a coast redwood), [8] 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 Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine). [9]

8. Sequoiadendron giganteum - Wikipedia

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   The trees have since been surrounded by modern real estate development. [64] In 2024, there were 4,949 notable sequoias in the UK. There is uncertainty if this is an undercount or overcount of the trees. [65] [66] In addition there are an estimated 500,000 younger Sequoiadendron giganteum and Sequoia sempervirens. Growing conditions are ...

9. Sequoia National Forest - Wikipedia

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   The Sequoia National Forest covers 1,193,315 acres (1,864.555 sq mi; 4,829.17 km 2), [1] and ranges in elevation from 1,000 feet (300 m) in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Its giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves are part of its 196,000 acres (790 km 2) of old growth forests.