Author: CALAVERAS BIG TREES STATE PARK / STATE OF CALIFORNIA-THE RESOURCES AGENCY
Title: A Guide to the Calaveras North Grove Trail
Description: Calaveras, CA: Calaveras Big Trees Association, 1990. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers are mostly clean and bright, but there is one ink scribble to the foredge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Giant sequoias must stay upright to survive, and they have mechanisms to chemically and physically maintain their balance. Should one lean too much, down it comes. But the trees are known to live past 2000 years. They are not the oldest, tallest or widest of trees, but they are the largest in volume. The largest, the General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park has over 52,500 cubic feet of wood in its trunk alone! These trees have been known by indigenous people for hundreds of years. There is evidence that Californians saw them in the early 1800s, and members of the Walker Expedition saw these trees in 1833. Calaveras Big Trees are noteworthy in that they were discovered by a Gold Rush-era person 1852, and the word got out world-wide. Within a year the Discovery Tree had been felled. This was private land, and the owners wanted to make money through tourism. When they heard that a giant in Yosemite State Park (not a National park until 1890) had a tunnel carved in it in 1881, the folks at the North Grove did the same a few years later in a tree here." (from Calaveras Big Tree Association). Very Good .
Keywords: Californiana Calaveras Big Trees State Park John Muir Discovery Tree Redwoods California State Parks
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Title: A Guide to the Calaveras North Grove Trail
Description: Calaveras, CA: Calaveras Big Trees Association, 1990. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers are mostly clean and bright, but there is one ink scribble to the foredge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Giant sequoias must stay upright to survive, and they have mechanisms to chemically and physically maintain their balance. Should one lean too much, down it comes. But the trees are known to live past 2000 years. They are not the oldest, tallest or widest of trees, but they are the largest in volume. The largest, the General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park has over 52,500 cubic feet of wood in its trunk alone! These trees have been known by indigenous people for hundreds of years. There is evidence that Californians saw them in the early 1800s, and members of the Walker Expedition saw these trees in 1833. Calaveras Big Trees are noteworthy in that they were discovered by a Gold Rush-era person 1852, and the word got out world-wide. Within a year the Discovery Tree had been felled. This was private land, and the owners wanted to make money through tourism. When they heard that a giant in Yosemite State Park (not a National park until 1890) had a tunnel carved in it in 1881, the folks at the North Grove did the same a few years later in a tree here." (from Calaveras Big Tree Association). Very Good .
Keywords: Californiana Calaveras Big Trees State Park John Muir Discovery Tree Redwoods California State Parks
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45100
- Book number: 45100
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