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What is going on with the Sequoia Trees?
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Since 2014 California has been suffering from a terrible drought. Something like this hasn’t happened in millions of years. The reason Sequoia trees are dragged in to this situation is because Sequoia trees can not survive withoiut a good source of water. A single Sequoia tree needs at least 800 gallons of water each day. With a scarce of water in California these trees will eventually die.
WOW! Those trees are really amazing. They are as wide as one room in our house in diameter. The trees show how fascinating nature can be. It is very sad that people cut down these world wonders just for wood to get money. But, there are still many left standing and we should definitely protect them.
1. Giant sequoias have very specific climate requirements, so specific that they grow naturally only in a narrow 260-mile strip of mixed conifer forest on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains, primarily between 5,000 and 7,000 feet in elevation.
2. They can live up to 3,000 years.
3. They can have branches up to 8 feet in diameter.
4. Their bark can grow up to 3 feet thick.
5. Although sequoias were logged in the 1870s, their brittle wood does not make for good lumber; now, thankfully, most of the giant sequoia groves are protected.
6. The largest of the sequoias are as tall as an average 26-story building.
7. A few rare giant sequoias have grown taller than 300 feet, but it is the sequoia’s giant girth that sets it apart. They are usually more than 20 feet in diameter and up to 35 feet across. It would take six people stretched out head-to-toe to match this width.
8. While the tallest tree in the world is the Hyperion Tree, a coastal redwood measuring in at a stunning 379.1 feet tall, the largest tree in the world by volume is the General Sherman, above, a giant sequoia, boasting a total of 52,508 cubic feet.
9. General Sherman is not only the largest living tree, but the largest living organism, by volume, on the planet. At 2,100 years old, it weighs 2.7 million pounds, is 275 feet tall and has a 102-foot circumference at the ground. It has branches that are almost 7 feet in diameter.
10. The General Grant Tree is the second largest tree by volume with 46,608 cubic feet.
11. The third largest tree by volume is the President; it has a whopping two billion leaves. Incredibly, this grand old granddaddy is 3,240 years old, give or take a few decades.
12. Giant sequoias are the third longest-lived tree species, the only older trees are are bristlecone pines, the oldest one being nearly 5,000 years old, and Alerce trees (Fitzroya cupressoides).
13. They are incredibly hardy; they resist fungal rot, wood-boring beetles and their thick bark is flame resistant; they owe all of this unusual strength to the presence of tannic acids.
14. Their hardiness, age and size are all connected. Because they are so tough they grow old; they have their age to thank for their size because unlike mammals, they just keep growing and growing as they get older.
15. Giant sequoias only reproduce by seeds which sometimes remain in the cone for 20 years. Forest fires help open the cones which then grow from the burnt, bare soil.
16. The reproductive success of these grand trees requires something incredible: Each tree needs to produce just one maturing offspring over its lifespan of several thousand years for the species to persist.
Information found on https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/16-spectacular-facts-about-giant-sequoias.html if you want to check that out!
wow i never knew that trees get heavier when blooming. including 3.5 tons. also that a fruit could have a circumference of 60 feet. also a tree is FIRE resistant. also a tree growing of other trees are amazing
the great big sequoia trees that were visited by president Roosevelt him self is one of the biggest trees in the world with the height being 247 feet tall and 27 feet in diameter. This spectacular tree is the biggest tree in the world if you add up the wood and trunk size. This 3,200 year old tree is getting destroyed and there are barley any left. These amazing sight destroyers used to cut them down for fence wood. these people are a disgrace to nature.
I remember in the book camping with teddy it talked about general Sherman and the pictures in the makes the trees look small, like general Sherman was about 52,000 feet cubed in volume and in the picture it didn't look like that. Don't forget that tree that took over a day to climb. It is absolutely amazing watching that video.
As watching these videos my mind came up with a question:
If you were to climb every single tree in the top 10 highest trees and climb them 3 mph and time the traveling distance to another tree while going 60 mph when traveling, how much time would it take?
The California MASSIVE drought is California's worst drought in over a millennium (1,000 years). They lost half of its Sequoia trees since 1930. Trillions of gallons of underground waters were lost. Some of them lived for thousands of years and they might collapse now. “They’re beautiful, majestic trees,” said Koren Nydick. A single tree can require up to 800 gallons of water per day, which is then recycled into the system, but needs to be available in underground waters.
When we think about big life, whales and elephants come to mind. But try on this tree for size: The General Sherman giant sequoia is the largest known stem tree by volume on the planet. The trunk of the tree contains slightly more than 52,500 cubic feet (1,486.6 cubic meters) of material. (Shown here, Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park.)
Here's the picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/General_Sherman_2426497682.jpg
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