It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

Conservators applied solvent gel to the giant sequoia to draw the old varnish out The team then applied a special solvent gel to the surface that is on display. Chelsea explains, 'The solvent ...

“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 ...

Giant sequoia trees are native to Northern California. The trees are specific to the western portion of the Sierra Nevadas ...

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring ...

While Sequoia National Park may steal the show with its massive trees, Kings Canyon National Park, its "less-loved twin," quietly holds a more peaceful but equally impressive realm of towering ...

Visitors to the Giant Forest use a lot of the same words ... of the free park shuttle also stop here. Sequoia National Park Small Group Tour from Three Rivers (87 reviews) Private Guided Hiking ...