Located in
California's Sequoia National Forest
(Near
Visalia)
Not every tree has a nickname, but 'The
President' has earned it. This giant sequoia stands at 247 feet tall,
and is estimated to be over 3,200 years old. Imagine, this tree was
already 1200 years old when Jesus walked the
earth.
The trunk of the president measures at 27 feet
across,
with 2 BILLION needles from base to
top.
Because of its unbelievable size, this tree has
never been photographed in its entirety. Until now. A team of national
geographic photographers have worked along with scientists to try and
create the first photo that shows the president in all its glory.
They had to climb the tree with pulleys and
levers, and took
thousands of
photos.
Of those, they selected 126 and stitched them
together, to
get this incredible portrait of the president.
And here it is:
5 comments:
I so wish our children would take an interest in these type of things.
Apparently the tree had no problem with "climate change" over 3,300 years. If it survived chances are humans will as well.
Majestic!
boy i could make a nice picnic table out of that thing...
We drove THROUGH one of these once.The tree was hollowed out so cars could actually pass through it.Popular back in the 50's.
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