sequoia
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias , and false cypress.
a redwood tree, especially the California redwood.
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In an essay on a giant sequoia tree, for example, the editors deleted a phrase that compared the 'sequoia' 's shape to that of a Christmas tree because the analogy was considered religious and might be offensive to non-Christians.
He notes carefully the distinctive qualities of particular specimens of goldcup oak, Douglas spruce, yellow pine, silver fir, and 'sequoia' .
As a result of a picture in that issue of a 'sequoia' with many others around it that were dwarfs in comparison, we planned a late April trip to Sequoia National Park to check this out.
Visit here on Dec. 14 and participate in the annual trek to the General Grant Tree, the third-largest 'sequoia' in the United States.
Wander through a moody grove of ancient 'sequoias' on an easy 1/2-mile loop.
Because in front of you, spread along the Merced Valley are a series of vast walls of granite, the biggest being El Capitan - The Captain - soaring for 3,000 ft above the meadows, dwarfing the park's famous 'sequoias' .
In the silver glow of a full moon, trunks of enormous 'sequoias' rose up all around us.
Throughout the landscape stand stately trees thick enough to remind me of California's 'sequoias' , their massive roots winding over the earth.
We'll follow in Muir's footsteps through the awesome groves in the new monument - the last major 'sequoias' to be protected.
Before this spring, visitors hopped out of their vehicles in a cloud of exhaust smoke and gazed up at the gossamer falls from the cracked asphalt, the smell of 'sequoias' and the sound of cascading water barely discernible.
For example, 'sequoias' , with the genetic potential to grow to heights in excess of 300 feet in the climate of the coastal Pacific, would not do so in other parts of the country.
For over 25 years I was the leading redwood appraiser for the Save the Redwoods League in its acquisition contributions to both coastal and inland 'sequoias' .
The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, 'sequoias' , and false cypress.
I thus conclude with three literary evocations of 'sequoias' , which make different but related points.
Despite John Muir's attempts to have this grove added to Yosemite National Park; it was partially logged in the late 1800s; as a result, massive stumps of felled 'sequoias' stand next to towering giants.
At 1,540 acres, this was once the world's largest privately owned grove of 'sequoias' .
There are these trees called 'sequoias' in the west of my country and they grow to be about as big as those pines.
At Glacier Point, a full vertiginous mile above the valley floor, even the 'sequoias' seem dwarfed by Half Dome, the greatest ornament in a landscape brimming with wonders.
James, real quickly, we've mentioned the 'sequoias' , but lately haven't talked about the importance of these trees.
But fires can kill when flames reach the crowns of smaller trees and leap from there to the limbs of the 'sequoias' , high above the ground.
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