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Allen Russell is the 32nd or 33rd largest giant sequoia in the world It is also the largest tree in Balch County Park, and is part of the Mountain Home Grove, a sequoia grove located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, United States.
Giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. This is a list of giant sequoia groves. All naturally occurring giant sequoia groves are located in the moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in California, United States. They can be found at elevations between 1,400 and 2,400 m (4,593 and ...
Placer County Big Trees Grove is a small, isolated giant sequoia grove located along Mosquito Ridge Road in the American River watershed of Tahoe National Forest, California. It is known for being the northernmost and furthest removed of all giant sequoia groves. The grove contains six old-growth giant sequoias, two of which are of considerable ...
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.
The Sequoia National Forest has 34 giant sequoia groves. The 14 groves in the Kings River watershed are in the northern section of Giant Sequoia National Monument (GSNM), or in the Sequoia National Forest (SeNF), in southernmost Fresno County and Tulare County: Indian Basin Grove (GSNM) A mid-size grove, mostly logged. It can be accessed by ...
The Methuselah tree in the Mountain Home Grove is one of the largest Sequoia trees in the world. The Hercules tree in the Mountain Home Grove has a large room cut into it. Mountain Home Grove [1] is a grove of giant sequoia trees located in the southern part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, and includes some of the largest trees in ...
In late 1974, a small cluster of giant sequoia saplings were planted by the United States Forest Service in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California in the immediate aftermath of the Soboba Fire that left the landscape barren. The giant sequoias were rediscovered in 2008 by botanist Rudolf Schmid and his daughter Mena Schmidt while ...
The Giant Sequoias of California. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. Dilsaver, LM; Tweed, WC (1990). 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.