This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of ...

National Geographic predicted astrotourism would ... Sky Festival as a public educational program, fundraising for giant sequoia conservation projects, and selling educational retail products ...

While Sequoia National Park may steal the show with its massive trees, Kings Canyon National Park, its "less-loved twin," quietly holds a more peaceful but equally impressive realm of towering ...