"in the persistent ability of a 4,000-year-old tree to shut up shop almost everywhere throughout its stem in a very dry year, and faithfully to reawaken to add many new cells in a favorable year." ...

Some of these trees are over 200 years old. Advertisement Kuljeet Singh, president of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Virasat Manch, said, “Rats have dug burrows under nearly every tree.

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 ...