Tuesday 1/3/2012
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Earth’s Senior Residents, Big Trees Stood in Christ’s Time; the Oldest Spans 3,500 Years
South Calaveras Grove, only major group left in private hands, shelters 947 giant sequoias (gigantea) in the California Sierra. They share their domain with sugar pine (left) and others. Most are fire-scarred (center).
National Geographic, 1951
