The Michigan Champion giant sequoia tree stands about 116 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter at Lake Bluff Farms in Manistee ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

Blazes so intense to burn hot enough and high enough to kill so many giant sequoias — trees once considered nearly fire-proof — puts an exclamation point on climate change’s impact.

Giant Sequoias. This episode... why trees that have been built to handle fire are now being destroyed by it, and what we can do to save them. This is The Big Burn. I'm Jacob Margolis. Jacob ...

The Legacy Tree giant sequoia stands in a park near the post office in downtown Visalia before a ceremony honoring the tree is held on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2025. The 93-year-old tree was cut down due to ...

It could be eligible for inclusion on the Michigan Big Tree Register. This sequoia species is known to grow up to 140 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter, living about 250 years. Once thought extinct ...

Gas isn’t available in the Sequoia or Kings Canyon National Park. Take care when driving the steep and winding park roads. The post From Big Trees to Long Hikes: Top Things to do in Sequoia and ...

Visit Visalia has already gotten a number of ideas of how to replace the Legacy Tree. Bakke wants people to think big. “We want more grandiose ideas,” she said. “This is a sequoia giganteum ...

A shorter hike in Giant Forest, the Big Trees Trail, is a nearly milelong loop that goes around a meadow and features interpretive exhibits about the natural history of giant sequoias along the way.

The time has come to remove Visalia’s beloved Sequoia Legacy Tree. Planted in 1936 as a tribute to Sequoia National Park, the tree has been sick for years, as some community members have noted.