That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely look at it all. It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron ...

Giant sequoia saplings planted by Detroit arborists aim to combat pollution and preserve native trees, creating an urban ...

The largest living tree by volume is also a redwood: a giant sequoia known as General Sherman, located in Sequoia National Park. Both giant sequoias and coast redwoods can live over 2,000 years ...

How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent ... Chelsea's team looked closely at the sequoia to monitor and document any changes to its condition. Some parts of the tree slice, ...

But a few dozen of its neighbors have taken ill and died in recent years under threat from drought and bark beetle infestations, so on Tuesday the giant sequoia known as the General Sherman tree ...

“Big Tree mania” set in, William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to New York City. By 1855, a hotel had been ...

What was once vacant land is transforming into an urban forest on Detroit's east side, as a local non-profit works to plant giant sequoia trees that could stand for thousands of years.

Arborists are transforming vacant lots in Detroit into an urban forest of giant sequoias, aiming to improve air quality and ...

The project will not only replace blight with majestic trees, but could also improve air quality and preserve the trees ...

Catherine Parker "Giant" seems to be an understatement for this grove of sequoia trees in the southernmost section of Yosemite. Mariposa Grove of the Giant Sequoia is one of three groves in the ...

Reps. Vince Fong and Scott Peters are introducing legislation to speed restoration of fire-threatened giant sequoia groves. Lawmakers in the House will reintroduce bipartisan legislation Tuesday ...

Rep. Vince Fong (R-Calif.) can’t shake the environmental fight over reducing wildfire threats in California’s sequoia groves. Rep. Vince Fong says Congress can save threatened giant sequoia ...