I was looking through some old vacation pictures and came across this one. It sure gives a perspective on how big these trees are.
I love chopping down trees, unironically. It is super satisfying, feels ooga booga good.
I don’t think I could ever cut down a tree like that. It would just feel so fucking wrong. It’s a goddamn miracle it’s beautiful holy shit it’s so big.
Sigh
Super cool picture, but it’s absolutely disgusting that all those awesome, ancient trees were clear cut :(
This is the Mark Twain stump in Kings Canyon National Park. In 1891 they fell this tree to display it at the Museum of Natural History. So not too sure if clear cutting occurred, but the stump is 16 feet wide either way!
Fun fact, General Sherman (the biggest tree on earth by volume) is officially measured in baths. This is an actual sign at the
statenational park
Come on… American units are entirely absurd but this sign clearly displays both cubic feet and cubic meters.
These numbers are difficult to conceptualize so they’re accompanied by number of baths for context. Nothing official about baths.
Ok, yes pedantically. “An official sign posted at the General Sherman Tree measures the tree in baths. The sign was made by national park officials, posted by national park officials, and is maintained by the official national park service. Though the national park office made this measurement and posted it, it is not an official measurement of said tree. That should only be done in cubic feet and/or meters.”
I’ve since fixed my comment specifically for your enjoyment
Edit: forgot Sequoia was a national park. Different office, still official
reposted to /anythingbutmetric
Americans will use anything except the metric system
I remember that tree. The sign wasn’t so pretty back when I went.
This isn’t mildly interesting or even mildly sad, it’s a lot sad 🌳😭
It’s cool because we killed the tree.
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Sequoiadendron is the giant redwood, coastal redwood is the tallest, it’s unique in that it’s a hexaploid which rare for a gymnosperm, except ephedra plants. Scientist speculated it’s because it evolved from its self(cloning behaviour) although it’s capable of outcrossing too. The final genus is the metaseaquoia, the Chinese dawn redwood
Scientist speculated it’s because it evolved from its self(cloning behaviour)
So it is an abomination of some sort?
apparently plants like to vegatively reproduce, redwood especially, one of the reason it has duplicates(6 copies of its genome) is during meisosis, during gamtes are “unreduced” so they dont form like half like normal, they just keep the duplicated genome(most conifers are diploids). its not a problem for plants when they do this, but its less common in animals.
The Mark Twain Stump https://www.nps.gov/places/000/big-stump.htm
Oh, cool. Thanks. I imagine it took some manipulation to fell it and move it.
I’ve not been there enough, somehow missed this completely. Have to go back. Having grown up in California, in the redwoods, I understand the scale of these things but this photo doesn’t even look real. It’s nuts. So, I learned something. Thanks for posting.
That is so freakin’ cool! The size of that plant is on display in its stumpy remains…just revel in thoughts of its original girth and height!
Ugh…imagining it’s majesty by extrapolation makes me sad at what I see that is no longer there. That makes me sad.
When the pioneers and settlers came upon those giants they must have thought they had wandered into another world.
were
Took me a second to realize that was a person lying down and not bits of mushroom
My wife.
“I too choose this dead tree’s wife”
Not a very flattering picture of Ms. Stump, but ok.
