The Michigan Champion giant sequoia tree stands about 116 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter at Lake Bluff Farms in Manistee ...

It was believed to have been extinct for about 5 million years when, in the early 1940s, it was rediscovered in central China, according to the National Park Service. That region, where it first ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic ... It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

Fires in Sequoia National Park and surrounding Sequoia National Forest tore through more than a third of groves in California and torched an estimated 2,261 to 3,637 sequoias, which are the ...

At Humboldt Redwoods State Park ... But the redwood rises most splendidly in Sequoia National Park, where it sprouts across 631 square miles of forested terrain, on the slopes of the Sierra ...

Los Angeles had 2,443 bad air days during the same period Along with neighboring Kings Canyon and Yosemite, Sequoia National Park helped spur the creation of the National Park System. Visitors travel ...