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Big Stump Grove is a giant sequoia grove located at the southwest entrance of Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California. It is one of a group of eight close but narrowly separated Giant Sequoia groves situated in Giant Sequoia National Monument and Kings Canyon National Park .
The Mark Twain Tree was a giant sequoia tree located in the Big Stump Forest of Kings Canyon National Park.It was named after the American writer and humorist Mark Twain.It had a diameter of 16 feet (4.9 meters) when it was felled in 1891 for the American Museum of Natural History as an exhibition tree.
Many park visitors enter Sequoia National Park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1,700 ft (520 m) elevation. The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service-protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys.
Redwood Mountain Grove in neighboring Kings Canyon National Park “lost an estimated 974 to 1,574 large sequoias,” according to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which are managed jointly.
The Discovery Tree was the first giant sequoia to be felled by a basal cut, allowing botanists to accurately estimate the tree's age by counting its rings. [7] After its felling, the stump of the Discovery Tree was used as a dance floor, bar, and bowling alley, and remains a popular tourist destination in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. [8]
Giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. This is a list of giant sequoia groves.All naturally occurring giant sequoia groves are located in the moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in California, United States.
The Sequoia National Forest has 34 giant sequoia groves. The 14 groves in the Kings River watershed are in the northern section of Giant Sequoia National Monument (GSNM), or in the Sequoia National Forest (SeNF), in southernmost Fresno County and Tulare County: Indian Basin Grove (GSNM) A mid-size grove, mostly logged. It can be accessed by ...
Sequoia National Park was first preserved as land set aside for recreation through a bill, Sept. 25, 1890, ch. 926, §1, 26 Stat. 478, passed by Congress and signed by President Benjamin Harrison on September 5, 1890, largely due to the efforts of Colonel George W. Stewart, who is known as the "Father of Sequoia National Park". [7]