Instead they adopted the name given by a French scientist: Sequoia gigantea, in honor of Sequoyah, the Native American creator of the Cherokee writing system. The study of these trees continued as ...

A relative, but no longer cut commercially, is Sequoia gigantea or “Big Tree.” Mature redwoods are also Big Trees—300 ft. high, 30 ft. through the butt. Because the first redwoods cut were ...

Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world’s largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman’s ...

The giant sequoia, or Sequoia gigantea, is one of the largest living organisms in the world. Some of the trees in Dillonwood Grove are more than 20 feet in diameter. Much of the forest was logged ...

Instead, they adopted the name given by a French scientist: Sequoia gigantea, in honor of Sequoyah, the Native American creator of the Cherokee writing system. The study of these trees continued ...