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Many park visitors enter Sequoia National Park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1,700 ft (520 m) elevation. The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service-protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys.
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]
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).
A drone passes the General Sherman giant sequoia with a climber’s rope seen in the background during a health inspection using drones and climbers Tuesday, May 21, 2024 in Sequoia National Park.
The area is a botanical reserve under administration by the Sequoia National Forest, except for one small inholding. The largest unlogged grove outside of a national park , it covers about 1,425 acres (5.77 km 2 ) in the Freeman Creek Watershed, mainly south of Freeman Creek.
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