The largest living tree by volume is also ... there were roughly 2 million acres of redwood trees in Northern California. These were primarily "old growth" redwoods, a term that refers to trees ...

The giant trees grow along the Pacific Coast in northern and central California and southern Oregon. The base can be up to 22 feet in diameter. Some coastal redwoods have exceeded this.

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than 250 ft. tall, with a circumference greater than 90 ft. at their base. The oldest have seen more than 3,000 years.

On a cutover California hillside ... some foresters call them the biggest "pest" in the redwoods. But bears became a problem only when companies began growing trees like a crop.