This instability meant it was vital that conservators repair and enhance the tree, to preserve it for millions of future visitors. The felling of the sequoia in 1891, left, and Museum conservators ...

Before it was felled in the early 1900s ... which grow thicker. The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says, adapted for long winters in the Sierra. But it’s a fire tree too.

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring ...

Everybody counted the rings on the felled trunk differently—one ... William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to ...

One tunnel was cut through a dead sequoia tree in 1878, earning it the nickname ... which was cut in 1881, fell in 1968 due ...