The time has come to remove Visalia’s beloved Sequoia Legacy Tree. Planted in 1936 as a tribute to Sequoia National Park, the tree has been sick for years, as some community members have noted.

The past few years had been particularly rough for Visalia’s Sequoia Legacy Tree. A pattern of heavy winters and dry summers left the nearly 90-year-old tree susceptible to a particular type of ...

The largest living tree by volume is also a redwood: a giant sequoia known as General Sherman, located in Sequoia National Park. Both giant sequoias and coast redwoods can live over 2,000 years ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...