This is the town nearest to Chilnualna Falls and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia.

The southern section, which includes Long Meadow Grove, is directly south of Sequoia National Park and is administered by the Western Divide Ranger District, surrounding the eastern half of the Tule River Indian Reservation.

In 1864, Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees were transferred from federal to state ownership.

The Washington tree is a giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest Grove in Tulare County, California, within Sequoia National Park.

Galen Clark ( March 28, 1814 – March 24, 1910 ) is known as the first European American to discover the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees, and is notable for his role in gaining legislation to protect it and the Yosemite area, and for 24 years serving as Guardian of Yosemite National Park.

* Today, the Giant Sequoia that would have been the first of its kind to be seen by Clark at the Mariposa Grove is named and marked " Galen Clark Tree " ( 240 feet ; diameter 15. 3 at 10 feet above mean base ) in memory of his contribution to the preservation of the Giant Sequoia ecosystem and the idea of the national park.

* General Grant tree, the largest Giant Sequoia in the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park

Later, the Angels proceed to the Sequoia Grove cemetery to bury the Loser.

2070 m. Cherry Gap Grove is a small sequoia grove of about thirty-five acres in Sequoia national forest ; it was logged of all of its old growth sequoias.

While the bark and foliage are similar to another closely related redwood genus Sequoia, Metasequoia differs from the California redwood in that it is deciduous like Taxodium distichum ( bald cypress ), and like that species, older specimens form wide buttresses on the lower trunk.

While the bark and foliage are similar to another closely related redwood genus Sequoia, M. glyptostroboides differs from the coast redwood in that it is deciduous like Taxodium distichum ( bald cypress ), and like that species, older specimens form wide buttresses on the lower trunk.

In the field next to the park's entrance kiosk, all three known types of redwood trees, the Coast Redwood, the Giant Sequoia, and the Dawn Redwood ( the latter two not native to the area ) are planted together, providing a unique place to instantly compare and contrast the members of this family of trees.

The three major national parks in this province are Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, and Sequoia National Park.

Lying at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which includes Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks, Clovis has been known as " Gateway to the Sierras " since its incorporation in 1912.

The Sierra Nevada contains Yosemite Valley, famous for its glacially-carved domes, and Sequoia National Park, home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia trees, and the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney.

* The Secret of the Big Trees: Yosemite Sequoia and General Grant National Parks ( 1921 ) by Ellsworth Huntington

From Tuolumne Meadows the trail turns south, running parallel to the main range of the Sierra Nevada, through Yosemite National Park, Inyo and Sierra national forests ( including the John Muir Wilderness and Ansel Adams Wilderness ), passing through Devils Postpile National Monument, Kings Canyon National Park, and ending on Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park.

His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas.

He petitioned the U. S. Congress for the National Park bill that was passed in 1890, establishing both Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks.

The west slope of the mountain is in Sequoia National Park and the summit is the south end of the John Muir Trail which runs from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley.

Johnson was subsequently stationed at Yosemite and Sequoia national parks.

On a trip through Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks in 1914, Mather was shocked by the conditions he found and upon his return to Chicago, he again wrote Secretary Lane a highly critical report on the mismanagement of the national parks.

Clyde began climbing in the Sierra Nevada in 1910, when he visited Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks, writing to his mother that " I climbed the highest mountains in the region ".

* Yosemite & The Southern Sierra Nevada: A Complete Guide, Including Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Death Valley & Mammoth Lakes ( Great Destinations ), by David T. Page, ISBN 978-1-58157-077-9, 2008.

* Ski Tours in the Sierra Nevada: Yosemite, Huntington and Shaver Lakes, Kings Canyon and Sequoia, by Marcus Libkind, ISBN 0-931255-02-3, 1985.

Clark did not seek to enrich himself from Yosemite Valley or the Sequoia trees.

It stretches from the eastern side of Yosemite to south of Sequoia National Park.

Redwood tree in northern California redwood forest, where many Sequoia sempervirens | redwood trees are managed for preservation and longevity, rather than being harvested for wood production

* IBM Sequoia, codename for an IBM supercomputer sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Some time ago I left all for Sequoia and have been and am at his feet, fasting and praying for light, for is he not the greatest light in the woods, in the world?

The U. S. presidential yacht Sequoia was auctioned at the La Coquille Club in Manalapan on 25 March 1977 during the Carter administration, for US $ 270, 000, as a symbolic cutback in Federal Government spending ( annual cost to the U. S. Navy was $ 800, 000 ) and to reduce signs of an " imperial presidency ".

Together with a constant water supply from a nearby reservoir, the flume enabled the efficient transportation of boards of lumber over deep gorges and cliffs and thereby opened up the area now known as Sequoia National Forest for clearcutting of the giant Redwood forests.

The temperate coniferous rain forests sustain the highest levels of biomass in any terrestrial ecosystem and are notable for trees of massive proportions, including Coast Redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens ), Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ), Sitka Spruce ( Picea sitchensis ), Alerce ( Fitzroya cupressoides ) and Kauri ( Agathis australis ).

Some time ago I left all for Sequoia: have been and am at his feet fasting and praying for light, for is he not the greatest light in the woods ; in the world.

This creates a favorable environment for coniferous forests, including the southernmost habitat of the coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens ), which grows only on lower coastal slopes that are routinely fogged in at night.

In 1999, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital paid $ 25 million for 20 % of Google — as of November 2008 Google's market capitalization stood at about $ 108 billion.

The Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies ( SOCES ), formerly Sequoia Junior High School lies adjacent to Reseda Park ; it is not in or near the community of Sherman Oaks, its former location.

These relatives of the Giant Sequoia are known for their height.

The park is famed for its coast redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ), many of which grow to over in height.

After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia ( 1981 ), a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, the Island Prelude, two string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems.

In early 2008, New Jersey election officials announced that they planned to send one or more Sequoia Advantage voting machines to Ed Felten and Andrew Appel ( also of Princeton University ) for analysis.

* The Sequoia tree, named shortly after his death, is thought to be named for him.