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Park Sequoia
  Create in 1919
  Park location Middle est California
  Number of pictures 84
 
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Climbing the stairs to the top of Moro Rock
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Sequoia trees at crescent meadow. Wonderful hike
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bear cub sequoia national park
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General sherman three Sequoia National Park
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Tree within the park
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General Sherman is the name of a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) with a height of 83.8 metres (275 ft). As of 2002, the volume of its trunk measured about 1,487 cubic metres (52,513 cu ft), making it the largest known non-clonal tree by volume.[1] The tree is located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States, east of Visalia, California. The tree is believed to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old.[2][3][4] In 1879, it was named after American Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman, by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman. In 1931, following comparisons with the nearby General Grant tree, General Sherman was identified as the largest tree in the world. One upshot of this process was that wood-volume was widely accepted as the defining factor in establishing the world's largest tree.[5][6] In January 2006 the largest branch on the tree (seen most commonly, in older photos, as an
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Big tree, small cabin
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Sequoia National park
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wildlife (deers ?) at sequoia national park
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