What is ten times larger than a blue whale? What stands about 275 feet tall and is about 2,700 years old? By volume, the largest living thing on Earth is a Giant Sequoia tree in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in California. It has been nicknamed General Sherman.
There is a smaller but taller tree in Redwood National Forest standing 379 feet tall. It's name is Hyperion and is the tallest living thing on Earth.
I've driven near this area in Central California and, combined with the view from the Pacific Coast Highway, it makes up some of the most beautiful land on the planet.
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Check out "Wild Trees" -- about California's big sequoias and redwoods-- and people who climb them.
Should be at library and Amazon.
I made a new Giant Sequoia poster for the USFS -- see my link for picture of art if you want.
Regarding earlier posting about Global Cooling proving Global Warming wrong-- please consider reviewing scientists on Real Climate . org
Might be worth reading. I can't tell if you are adamant about your view or open to another point of view.
Scientists actually predict some cooling along the way to our climate's heating up.
There will also be areas of the world that will be wetter than others as we start to change.
The main concern I have is the rapid changes in climate-- and whether we will have the capacity to change behavior in time for us to matter.
Best fishes,
Timothy
basta.
Timothy
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