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Giant Sequoia trees of Sequoia National Park, California Places Visited: Saturday, June 4: River Bend & Kings Canyon RV Park & Mobile Home Park Sanger (East Fresno), California: $25 FHU-30amp. Gravel interior roads with grass sites. N36° 43.924' W119° 28.084' 559-787-3627 (be aware that this RV-Park is NOT a resort. Far from it there are many ramshackle trailers providing permanent housing.) This was our day to do Sequoia National Park from A to Z. That meant we had to get an early start and stay late. Sequoia NP is high on the western edge of the Sierras and contains several groves of giant sequoia trees the largest living things on this planet. These trees grow naturally only in a narrow belt here on the western side of the Sierras that is only about 15-miles wide and 120-miles long. Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
Giant Grove is where the General Sherman Tree is. The General Sherman is the world's largest living thing. In the same grove with the General Sherman tree are three more of the 4 largest trees in the world. We saw the other one yesterday in Kings Canyon National Park.
General Sherman Giant Sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park in California
Pic to the left gives statistics on the General Sherman Tree while the pic on the right is a cross section cut to show the growth rings. A plaque nearby has markers that show the rings & significant world events that occurred. All the way from Egyptian Pharos building the pyramids, birth of Christ, Roman Empire, and on and on. It is interesting to locate those rings and contimplate just how long this tree has been living.
Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
Fire has damage all of the ancient giants. They just can not survive for thousands of years without experiencing forest fires.
Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
More fire damage.
Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
Now that is one BIG sequoia Joyce is standing beside.
Booker T Washington Giant Sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park in California
That is the Booker T. Washington Tree to the left, it is another VIG tree. To the right is a pic of the small sequoia cones on the ground.
Giant Sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park in California
Above is Mike holding a sequoia cone while the pic on the right is our Saturn driving through a tunnel in a fallen sequoia.
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