It’s not the tallest or oldest tree in the world today, but it’s the largest when measured by ... so on Tuesday the giant sequoia known as the General Sherman tree got a checkup.

Planted in 1948, it’s the largest giant sequoia tree east of the Rocky Mountains at 116 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter. Lake Bluff Farms also features an arboretum, birding, hiking trails ...

sequoia tree, which draws tourists from around the world to Sequoia National Park. Giant sequoias, the Earth’s largest living things, have survived for thousands of years in California’s ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias ...

The giant sequoia is considered the largest known living tree on the planet and also one of the tallest, widest and longest-lived (estimated at 2,000+ years old). It is more than 100 feet around ...

Another is a clone of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Tree, which is located in the Alder Creek Grove at Giant Sequoia National Monument in California; it is the fifth largest tree in the world. There are ...