So those old, stately cedar, Douglas fir, and sequoia trees that formerly occupied the now-bare site were sacrificed for nothing. |
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Our last stop is the interior mountain ranges, home to the 681-point sugar pine and the almighty 1,321-point giant sequoia. |
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Whenever a massive sequoia tree or branch threatened to fall on a structure, the tree was cut down. |
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Visit here on Dec. 14 and participate in the annual trek to the General Grant Tree, the third-largest sequoia in the United States. |
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He notes carefully the distinctive qualities of particular specimens of goldcup oak, Douglas spruce, yellow pine, silver fir, and sequoia. |
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Several tree species are striking exceptions, perhaps the most notable being the world's most massive tree, the giant sequoia. |
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Now native only to China, the dawn redwood was the most common sequoia in North America during prehistoric times. |
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I add his sighting to a tally that includes a green woodpecker sheltering in a sequoia. |
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Unfortunately, the giant sequoia of California does not live in a sufficiently sensitive environment to provide a useful record. |
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Fire releases cone seeds from species such as the Giant sequoia, lodgepole pine and Ponderosa pine and redistributes nutrients to the soil, benefiting new growth. |
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Unsurprisingly, sequoia believes we are at the brink of a serious recession. |
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Yet no sequoia has ever been found to be older than about 4,000 years. |
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For more than 150 years, a clump of Sequoiadendron Giganteum trees, commonly known as giant sequoia, had been growing in Normanby. |
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At Yosemite, the list ranges from upgrading the El Portal sewer lines to rehabilitating the much-visited Mariposa grove of giant sequoia trees. |
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The flames consumed about 4,850 hectares in Yosemite which is well known for scenic wonders like giant sequoia groves and waterfalls. |
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At 1,010 total points, as measured by the American Forestry Association's scoring system, it was second only to the giant sequoia champion. |
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See coast redwood, dawn redwood, and sequoia. |
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It had all begun in 1997 when 57-year old Toshilco Hilcosalca set out to climb a giant sequoia tree in California. |
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Since the beginning of the American Forestry Association's Big Tree Program in 1940, the General Sherman sequoia has reigned as biggest of the nation's big trees. |
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Fire crews strengthened old containment lines on Wednesday to keep a blaze in Yosemite National Park from reaching a grove of treasured giant sequoia trees. |
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The box had come two days after the trip to the Galleria, and Sequoia ornamented her furnishings with stuff from the mall. |
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Their decay-resistant heartwood is highly valued for construction, and logging in Sequoia National Forest has gone on for over a century. |
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The flora is dominated by Sequoia, cypresses, elms, oaks, willows, and cottonwoods. |
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Sequoia was wearing black and white tweed capris and a pink polo shirt. |
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Sequoia National Park is a bit like the older, more plain sister whose younger, flashier sibling gets all the attention. |
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Several of Bull's research sites are within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks since they are close enough to the San Andreas Fault for coseismal rock falls. |
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Its flora is dominated by ferns, pines, Sequoia, laurels, and Platanus. |
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Taken together, these capabilities provide Sequoia with a great opportunity to convert our compounds into medicines that positively impact people's lives. |
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Sequoia minces no words in its tough love message for managers. |
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The world's biggest trees faced one of their fiercest foes Tuesday as a hot summer brush fired raged for a third straight day across Sequoia National Monument. |
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