Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
The Secret Colossal Trees of California's North Coast
News
By News
Published 5 years ago on
November 13, 2019

Share

[aggregation-styles]

The General Sherman, a giant sequoia in California’s southern Sierra Nevada, is as wide as a three-lane highway, nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty, and older than Christ. It’s the champion of big trees, recognized as such for decades by American Forests, a nonprofit that has been ranking the world’s biggest trees since 1940.
Yet, according to some tree experts, Sherman’s top ranking should come with an asterisk. It all depends on how you define biggest.
Sherman doesn’t rise nearly as high as the world’s tallest trees, but it maintains impressive girth in its upper reaches. For that reason, according to Stephen C. Sillett, a leading redwood expert at Humboldt State University, it’s the undisputed champ in total biomass, estimated at 52,500 cubic feet — enough to fill about 20 typical swimming pools.

Read More →

RELATED TOPICS:

DON'T MISS

What Are Fresno Real Estate Experts Predicting for 2025 and Beyond?

DON'T MISS

First California EV Mandates Hit Automakers This Year. Most Are Not Even Close

DON'T MISS

Moscow Plans to Use Seized US-Owned Company to Feed Russian Army, Document Shows

DON'T MISS

Scientists Find Strongest Evidence yet of Life on an Alien Planet

DON'T MISS

Ohtani Hits 448-Foot Homer in 7-Run 1st Inning, Dodgers Sweep Rockies

DON'T MISS

Ursula Is Beautiful, Athletic, and Seeking Your Companionship

DON'T MISS

EU Announces $1.8 Billion Aid Package for Palestinian Authority

DON'T MISS

How Trump Might Unwittingly Cut Emissions From Online Shopping

DON'T MISS

Trump Slams Fed’s Powell Over Rates, Saying Termination Can’t ‘Come Fast Enough’

DON'T MISS

Dollar, US Stocks Find Some Stability as Trade Talks Help the Mood

DON'T MISS

Merced’s Own Super Bloom Is Here. How This Grassland Reserve Protects Endangered Species

DON'T MISS

ICE Smashes Car Window to Detain Asylum Seeker, Family Says

UP NEXT

Rise of the Anti-“Woke” Democrat

UP NEXT

High-Level Saudi Visit Follows Multimillion-Dollar Foreign Influence Operation

UP NEXT

Iran and Russia Move to Fill Diplomatic Vacuum in Afghanistan

UP NEXT

Pelosi’s Husband Locked In $5.3 Million From Alphabet Options

UP NEXT

Experts Reportedly See Major Damage in Attack on Iran Centrifuge Plant

UP NEXT

Opinion: School Choice Marches Ahead

UP NEXT

Zakaria: Americans Care About History Because the Stakes Are High

UP NEXT

California Democrats Are Reliably Pro-Labor. But One Union Is Testing Their Patience.

UP NEXT

The Tightrope Walk Democrats Have Ahead on Two Separate Infrastructure Bills

UP NEXT

Bill Barr on Trump’s Election Fraud Claims: “It Was All Bullsh*t”

Ursula Is Beautiful, Athletic, and Seeking Your Companionship

30 minutes ago

EU Announces $1.8 Billion Aid Package for Palestinian Authority

42 minutes ago

How Trump Might Unwittingly Cut Emissions From Online Shopping

46 minutes ago

Trump Slams Fed’s Powell Over Rates, Saying Termination Can’t ‘Come Fast Enough’

52 minutes ago

Dollar, US Stocks Find Some Stability as Trade Talks Help the Mood

55 minutes ago

Merced’s Own Super Bloom Is Here. How This Grassland Reserve Protects Endangered Species

2 hours ago

ICE Smashes Car Window to Detain Asylum Seeker, Family Says

16 hours ago

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Seeks Two-Month Delay of May 5 Trial

16 hours ago

Temu and Shein Say They’re Raising Prices Due to Tariffs

16 hours ago

Actor Michelle Trachtenberg Died of Complications From Diabetes, Says NYC Medical Examiner

16 hours ago

Moscow Plans to Use Seized US-Owned Company to Feed Russian Army, Document Shows

LONDON (Reuters) – Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to su...

3 minutes ago

Russian conscripts called up for military service line up during a ceremony before their departure for garrisons, in Bataysk in the Rostov region, Russia, April 10, 2025. (REUTERS File)
3 minutes ago

Moscow Plans to Use Seized US-Owned Company to Feed Russian Army, Document Shows

An illustration shows a hycean world – an exoplanet with a liquid water ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere - orbiting a red dwarf star. Based on observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, the exoplanet K2-18 b might fit in this category. This illustration was obtained by Reuters on April 16, 2025. (A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge/Handout via REUTERS)
21 minutes ago

Scientists Find Strongest Evidence yet of Life on an Alien Planet

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani watches his ball go out for a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)
26 minutes ago

Ohtani Hits 448-Foot Homer in 7-Run 1st Inning, Dodgers Sweep Rockies

Ursula, GV Wire's Adoptable Pet of the Week, April 17, 2025
30 minutes ago

Ursula Is Beautiful, Athletic, and Seeking Your Companionship

42 minutes ago

EU Announces $1.8 Billion Aid Package for Palestinian Authority

Shein packages ready to be shipped from a factory in Guangzhou, China, in Feb. 12, 2025. Fast fashion retailers rely heavily on shipping by air. The president’s tariffs could change that. (Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)
46 minutes ago

How Trump Might Unwittingly Cut Emissions From Online Shopping

President Donald Trump looks on as Jerome Powell, his nominee to become chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 2, 2017. (REUTERS File)
52 minutes ago

Trump Slams Fed’s Powell Over Rates, Saying Termination Can’t ‘Come Fast Enough’

Pedestrians are reflected on a stock quotation board showing a graph of Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan April 14, 2025. (REUTERS File)
55 minutes ago

Dollar, US Stocks Find Some Stability as Trade Talks Help the Mood

Help continue the work that gets you the news that matters most.

Search

Send this to a friend