The sequoia tree helps to transport us through a timespan so large that it's difficult to fully comprehend- a tree that represents three human lifespans but lived 16 million years ago, represents ...

“Big Tree mania” set in, William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to New York City. By 1855, a hotel had been ...

honoring the tree that had been planted as a 3-year-old sequoia sapling next to the post office in 1936. Though the condition of the tree at the start of the Legacy Tree project was already rated ...

There's also the fun California Tunnel Tree, which is the only living sequoia in Yosemite that features a human-made tunnel carved out the middle of the trunk. Visitors can admire the towering ...