Giant Sequoia Falls in California
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 4th, 2011 4:48 am by HL
Giant Sequoia Falls in California
a 1,500-year-old sequoia fell a month ago in the Sierra Nevada’s famed Trail of 100 Giants in California, raising the question of what should be done with it. The 300-foot long tree “had stood sentry since King Arthur’s knights gathered at the Round Table. It witnessed the arrival of the first European settlers and the flurry of miners in search of gold. The onset of the Medieval Warm Period and the passing of the Little Ice Age. It stood, unperturbed, through the Great War and the one that followed,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “Then a month ago, as a handful of amazed tourists looked on, it toppled — crushing a bridge over a small stream and blocking the path.”
