They are amazing. I find the Giant Sequoia trees even more impressive. Funny that “Sequoia Park Garden” in in this story has only Coastal Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens), and not Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum). People are already confused enough about these two very different trees.
You haven’t lived until you drive through a Giant Sequoia.
At Calaveras Big Trees state park, there a stump with steps carved in the side they made into a dance floor.
Where the base of the tree fell, they split it and made a 4 lane bowling alley.
Doug firs were even bigger. Would have loved seeing these beauties. Instead I saw stumps growing up.
“ The tallest known redwood is 379 feet tall. But historical accounts are full of references to Douglas Fir trees 400 feet tall and more. One tree in the lower North Fork of the Nooksack River Valley is thought to have been 465 feet tall, probably the largest known tree ever recorded anywhere on the planet. And it wasn’t alone.
Micah Ewers of Portland writes, “If this was just a freak occurrence, I would write it off. But I’ve collected 90 to 100 reports of 300- to 400-foot Douglas firs. A hundred years ago, trees rivaling the height of the redwoods were fairly common. The whole Puget Sound was just filled with giant trees.”
His research found references to many trees that would be considered world record holders today on the sites of current downtown Seattle and downtown Vancouver in British Columbia.is “