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The tree was named after the titan Hyperion from Greek mythology. [9] [8] Hyperion is estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old [2] [10] [11] and contain 530 m 3 (18,600 cu ft) of wood. [3] Coast redwoods in Redwood National Park. The exact location of Hyperion is nominally secret but is available via internet search. [12]
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.
Despite its name, the tree, which dates to 1549–1554, is actually young for an old-growth coastal redwood, many of which live between 1200 and 1800 years old or more. [1] Between 7-12 years before Old Survivor was seeded, Spanish/Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo had led the first expedition to explore the coast of what is now ...
Luna is a 1,500-year-old, 200-foot-tall (61 m) [1] coast redwood tree located near the community of Stafford in Humboldt County, California, which was occupied for 738 days by forest activist Julia Butterfly Hill and saved by an agreement between Hill and the Pacific Lumber Company
When a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest ...
The trees come from a seed no bigger than that of a tomato seed. [17] Most of the redwoods in the monument are between 500 and 800 years old. The oldest is at least 1,200 years old. Other tree species grow in the understory of the redwood groves.
The Redwood Grove comprises old-growth "virgin" redwoods, the oldest trees of which are approximately 1,400–1,800 years old and grow to approximately 300 feet (91 m) tall and over 16 feet (4.9 m) in diameter. Referred to by locals as "the loop," the grove is primarily a self-guided walk—but on most summer weekends, and many other times year ...
The state park, California's oldest, is also the largest stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco. It was 97% burned in 2020, when the CZU Lightning Complex fire erupted in the Santa ...