Report on the Big Trees of CaliforniaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - 30 strani |
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12 feet 160 Louisa Greenwald 1st Sess 20 feet 280 feet high 480 Sanger Lumber 56th Cong Acres bark beautiful BIG TREE GROVE Big Tree stands Big Tree timber botanist branches CALAVERAS BIG TREE Calaveras Grove Crane Flat Detroit E. O. Miller Elihu Burritt Estate of John feet in circumference feet in diameter Fleitz fork Fresno Fresno County giants Grant National Park grizzly ground groves of Big Horace Whitaker Hutchings inch in length INTERIOR OF FOREST J. D. Whitney's Yosemite Kaweah rivers Kings and Kaweah Kings River largest logs Mariposa Grove Merced N. P. Dillon Name of owner North Grove one-half Orosi Peter McArthur prostrate RANGE 28 RANGE 31 EAST Redwood Sanger Lumber Co scattered Sequoia Sierra Smith's Cabin species Springville Stanislaus River stump SUGAR PINE tallest Taxodium TOWNSHIP 13 SOUTH trunk Tulare County Tulare County-Continued Tule River TUOLUMNE GROVE Visalia wood
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Stran 10 - Sequoia gigantea, of a diameter of one foot and over, besides a great number of small ones. The lower grove, which is smaller in size and more scattered, lies in a southwesterly direction from the other, some trees growing quite high up in the gulches on the south side of the ridge which separates the two groves. The trail approaches the Upper Grove from the west side, and passes...
Stran 18 - California are the direct or collateral decendants of the two ancient species which so closely resemble them. The forests of the arctic zone in tertiary times contained at least three other species of Sequoia, as determined by their remains, one of which, from Spitzbergen, also much resembles the common redwood of California. Another, "which appears to have been the commonest coniferous tree on Disco," was common in England and some other parts of Europe.
Stran 16 - These giants bulge considerably at the base, but not more than is required for beauty and safety; and the only reason that this bulging seems in some cases excessive is that only a comparatively small section of the shaft is seen at once in near views. One that I measured in the Kings...
Stran 9 - This grove occupies a belt 3,200 feet long by 700 feet broad, extending in a northwest and southeast direction, in a depression between two slopes, through which meanders a small brook which dries up in the summer. There are between 90 and 100 trees of large size in the grove, and a considerable number of small ones, chiefly on the outskirts. Several have fallen since the grove was discovered ; one has been cut down ; and one has had the bark stripped from it up to the height of 116 feet above the...
Stran 18 - Taxodium of tertiary time in Europe and throughout the arctic regions is the ancestor of our present bald cypress, which is assumed in regarding them as specifically identical, then I think we may, with our present light, fairly assume that the two redwoods of California are the direct or collateral descendants of the two ancient species which so closely resemble them. The forests of the arctic zone in tertiary times contained at least three...
Stran 17 - But very few of the millions of seeds which fall to the ground germinate, "and of those that do perhaps not 1 in 10,000 is suffered to live through the many vicissitudes of storm, drought, fire, and snowcrushing that beset their youth." AGE OF THE BIG TREES. The extreme age attained by the Big Tree is still an unsettled question. Statements on the subject vary considerably, some appearing to be exaggerations. One great difficulty, however, in settling the question of age, at least for existing trees,...
Stran 9 - This being the first grove of the Big Trees discovered, and the most accessible, it has come more into notice and been much more visited than any of the others; indeed, this and the Mariposa Grove are the only ones which have become a resort for travellers.
Stran 10 - Clark's ranch, and at an elevation of about 1,500 feet above the last-named place, or of 5,500 feet above the sea-level. It lies in a little valley, occupying a depression on the back of a ridge, which runs along in an easterly direction between Big Creek and the South Merced. One of the branches of the creek heads in the grove. The grant made by Congress is two miles square, and embraces, in reality, two distinct, or nearly distinct groves ; that is to say, two collections of Big Trees, bctween...
Stran 10 - The largest measured 81 feet in circumference at 3 feet from the ground. No other grove of Big Trees has been discovered to the southeast of this along the slope of the Sierra, until we reach a point more than 50 miles distant from the Fresno Grove.