Video of the Giant Sequoia: Gen. Sherman
Giant Sequoia trees are so huge even though they come from a seed the size of a grain of wheat.
- Fastest growing trees in the world.
- Biggest in width.
- Bark as much as 4 feet thick, 50 feet long, branches 100 feet off the ground.
- The trees have survived for 2,000 or 3,000 years some even longer.
- Some of the largest trees measure 35 feet in basel diameter and up to 300 feet in height.
- The tallest standing giant sequoia is 311 feet tall and the tallest redwood is 367 feet tall.
- They can grow up to 1 to 2 feet tall per year until its between 200 to 300 feet high, then like people they grow out.
- The tree grows at elevations of 6,500 feet.
I have many fond memories, LD, of motorcycling through the Sequoia forests of northern California. There are narrow, 2-lane roads that have no shoulders that pass straight through stands of these trees for miles at a stretch. On a motorcycle the experience is of not being on a road at all, just traveling through a forest of enormous trees.
ReplyDeleteMound, that sounds quite exciting. I have never been to California but I have friends who live in a suburb of San Francisco. There is an outstanding invitation from them for years now but I never got around.
ReplyDeleteThere is a plenty of wildernesses in the Maritimes, no Sequoia forests unfortunately, that I love to hike through. You have to watch out for mouse and bears. I got carried away few times and hiked up to 10-15 miles at a time – once 60km. These days a mile or two sounds good enough.