Library of Congress The trunk of the famous Wawona tunnel tree in Upper Mariposa Grove, California ... The astounding trees we now know as giant sequoias can live for more than 3,000 years ...

On day 323 of the transect, in Jedediah Smith Redwoods ... abyss of giant botanical pickup sticks, deadfall that had piled up amid the living trees over thousands of years. Another fallen monster ...