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She created the educational computer games Math Rescue and Word Rescue, published under Apogee, as well as the shareware platformer Pickle Wars, published by MVP Software. [ 2 ] In 1994, she was a spokesperson for various shareware game groups when the United States Congress was developing a rating system for video games.
The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge tourist railroad in California that starts from the Roaring Camp depot in Felton, California and runs up steep grades through redwood forests to the top of nearby Bear Mountain, a distance of 3.25 miles (5.23 kilometers).
Julia Lorraine Hill (born February 18, 1974), best known as Julia Butterfly Hill, is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She lived in a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, approximately 1,000-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997, and December 18, 1999.
Iluvatar is a redwood tree in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California that has been confirmed to be at least 20.5 feet (6.2 m) in diameter at breast height, and 320 feet (98 m) in height. Measured by botanist Stephen C. Sillett, it is the world's third-largest coast redwood, the largest being Lost Monarch. [1]
[4] [5] The redwoods contained in today's regional park are third-growth trees, many of which are over 100 years old. Only one old-growth redwood remains in the area, a 93 feet (28 m) tall tree that seems to grow miraculously out of a rock on a cliff face near Merritt College , which may have survived because it was out of reach for loggers. [ 2 ]
A survey of giant redwoods growing in the UK reveals the trees are doing well - and growing fast.
The California Tunnel Tree is the only remaining giant sequoia tunnel tree, while the other three surviving tunnel trees are coastal redwoods. [1] Today, tunnel trees serve as reminders of an earlier era in American tourism and as examples of the evolving understanding of the importance of conservation and tree preservation. [1]
Sequoioideae, commonly referred to as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae, that range in the northern hemisphere. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world. The trees in the subfamily are amongst the most notable trees in the world and are common ornamental trees.