FRESNO, calif. — Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’s No. 2 biggest tree has been ...

In this 2009 photo, The President towers behind other trees at Sequoia National Park. Steve Sillett via AP The new No. 2 is The President, a 54,000-cubic-foot gargantuan not far from the Grant in ...

The new No. 2 is The President, a 54,000-cubic-foot gargantuan not far from the Grant in Sequoia National Park. After 3,240 years, the giant sequoia still is growing wider at a consistent rate ...

A team led by Humboldt State's Stephen Sillett has discovered that The President is the second-largest tree, supplanting the nearby General Grant.

FRESNO, Calif. - Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world's No. 2 biggest tree has been ...

The Michigan Champion Giant Sequoia tree is 116 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter. It was planted in 1948 by the Gray family at their property in Manistee Township on the shore of Lake Michigan.

FRESNO, Calif. — Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’ s No. 2 ...

They’re not. The giant sequoia and redwood are closely related but not the exact same kind of tree. The National Park Service explains a couple of the differences: . Habitat: The giant sequoia ...

A giant sequoia tree fell in the Mariposa Grove at Yosemite National Park during a wind storm on Jan. 18 and 19, 2021, ... president of the Yosemite Conservancy, ...

A firefighter protects a sequoia tree as the Washburn Fire burns in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) ...

Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California ... an emergency,” said league President Sam ...

The Mariposa trees have so far escaped the fate of Alder Creek Grove, another stand of sequoias in the Giant Sequoia National Monument that was scorched during the Castle Fire in 2020.