Native the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the giant sequoia can grow to 314 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter. The General Sherman Tree - 275 feet tall and 25 feet in diameter ...

It puts that wood around the trunk, which grows wider, and into the limbs and the branches, which grow thicker. The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says, adapted for long winters in the Sierra.

“I’m inspired by their resilience — just the fact that this organism has been growing here in the same ... along with other members of the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition, are on the case ...