Sequoia

Sequoia

Sequoia was the second American national park. At 2,200 years old, the 275-foot-tall giant named General Sherman, whose trunk weighs an estimated 1,385 tons and whose circumference at the ground is nearly 103 feet, is the largest tree in the world. Our Earth, sequoias grow naturally only on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, most often between 5,000 and 7,000 feet in elevation....