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A 549 hectare (1,356 acre) grove with many large specimens. The lowest elevation at which the giant sequoia is known to grow naturally, 884 m (2,900 ft), is located beside the river below this grove. Home of 'King Arthur', formerly the 9th largest giant sequoia in the world.
It is located in Kings Canyon National Park and Giant Sequoia National Monument on the western slope of California's Sierra Nevada. The grove contains the world's tallest giant sequoia (95 metres (312 ft)). [2] The Hart Tree and Roosevelt Tree grow in the grove and are two of the 25 largest trees by volume in the world.
General Grant tree, General Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, 2007. Giant sequoias occur naturally in only one place on Earth—the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, on moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys [8] at an altitude of 820 to 2,100 meters (2,700 to 6,900 ft) above mean sea level.
The giant sequoia is usually found in a humid climate characterized by dry summers and snowy winters. Most giant sequoia groves are on granitic-based residual and alluvial soils. The elevation of the giant sequoia groves generally ranges from 1,400–2,000 m (4,600–6,600 ft) in the north, to 1,700–2,150 metres (5,580–7,050 ft) to the south.
The giant sequoia is the world's most massive species of tree and is one of the six species documented to grow to 300 ft (91 m) in height; the others are coast redwood, yellow meranti, Eucalyptus regnans, Douglas fir, and Sitka spruce. It is also among the longest-lived of all trees in the world.
In late 1974, a small cluster of giant sequoia saplings were planted by the United States Forest Service in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California in the immediate aftermath of the Soboba Fire that left the landscape barren. The giant sequoias were rediscovered in 2008 by botanist Rudolf Schmid and his daughter Mena Schmidt while ...
The Sequoia National Forest covers 1,193,315 acres (1,864.555 sq mi; 4,829.17 km 2), [1] and ranges in elevation from 1,000 feet (300 m) in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Its giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves are part of its 196,000 acres (790 km 2) of old growth forests.
Despite this, the grove is home to approximately 125 giant sequoias greater than 10 ft (3.0 m) in diameter and 1 giant sequoia greater than 20 ft (6.1 m) in diameter. A 1.3 mi (2.1 km) long interpretative trail called the Trail of 100 Giants that winds through the densest collection of old-growth giant sequoias found at the grove.