How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant ... after the tree was felled in California. After more than a century on public display as part of the Museum's botany collections, it needed cleaning ...

General Sherman, a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron ... consider these remarkable facts : ・Its trunk weighs an estimated 1,385 tons ・The tree’s largest branch has a diameter of nearly 7 feet ...

That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely look at it all. It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron ...

Here’s how to plan your visit. Standing at 275 feet tall, giant sequoia tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) General Sherman is Sequoia National Park's 'King of the Forest'. Photograph by Visit ...

Reaching heights of over 300ft (the same height as Big Ben), sequoias are the largest trees on Earth. Native to the Sierra Nevada mountains, these towering giants often appear drawn from the pages of ...