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Sequoia: Giants of the Ancient World
Posted by Rolf Joho on February 10th, 2010 filed in Global Warming
Giant sequoia have always been a marvel of flora biology. These trees originate as a minute seed which has become separated from an exceedingly compact cone by means of forest fire. Giant sequoia sprout and are the size of any other tree in their youth. They grow speedily and are disease, fungus and bacteria battling machines. Giant sequoia are resistant to numerous type of impacts which other trees fail to, including beetles or fire. Because of this longevity, the giant sequoia are able to develop to gigantic proportions.
Giant sequoia must have soil which is well-drained but they also demand large portions of water regularly, many thousand gallons to put it accurately. The Sierra Nevada mountains offer plenty of water on top of the subterranean rivers and caverns that are abundant in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park.
The Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park is practically the greatest on the planet. 77 giant sequoia groves are present today, and only in a few places. All are on the western slopes along the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Giant sequoias only grow amid elevation 5,000 and 7,000 feet and prefer wet conditions. When the circumstances are desirable, they do very well.
The most popular giant sequoia tree is the General Sherman, ranking as the most significant on the earth. General Sherman stands supreme at 274.9 feet in height and is over 100 feet in diameter. This makes his volume an awe-inspiring 52,508 cubic feet. That is more than a 26-story-building. General Sherman is approximately to be 2,700 years old and counting. If these patriarchal trees were able to talk, what a story they would proclaim!
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