It's not the tallest or oldest tree in the world today ... so on Tuesday the giant sequoia known as the General Sherman tree got a checkup. A team of tree doctors from the Ancient Forest Society ...

compare that to General Sherman at around 2,200 years old - and stands about 116 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter. The largest known giant sequoia tree east of the Rocky Mountains, it’s one of ...

Established in 1890, Sequoia National Park is the second-oldest national ... treasured for its towering trees, rugged terrain, and diversity of landscapes. From the giant General Sherman (the ...

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring ...

Some of that was because the tree didn’t quite have that old Sequoia look people expect. While it stood at 65 feet tall, ”it was really still a baby.” Sequoias (the giant ones) are some of ...

It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum ... including this: These old trees are still growing fast. It’s not quite the largest tree on Earth. It’s the second largest.

Some parts of the tree slice, including the bark ... Conservators applied solvent gel to the giant sequoia to draw the old varnish out The team then applied a special solvent gel to the surface that ...

The distinction between the Mariposa Grove and the others is that Mariposa is the largest, housing about 500 mature giant sequoia trees, each thousands of years old. Featured sights include the ...

The Giant Forest is also home to the famous General Sherman Tree, the largest living tree – by volume – in the world. Visitors to the Giant Forest use a lot of the same words to describe it ...