How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent, buckets of conservation-grade resin and a lot of patience. Giant sequoias are among the largest organisms in the world. It took 12 ...

It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

I had visited the park before, but seeing the sequoias in the Giant Forest, where more than 2,000 of them stretch toward the sky, is still shocking; the immensity and age of these ancient trees are ...

These tree giants dominate the forests of the West Coast of California and Oregon, standing as ancient sentinels ... The redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron ...

The grove is located between the Marble and Middle Forks of the Kaweah River and is home to more than 8,000 sequoias – the most of any grove in the park. Start your visit at the Giant Forest ...