"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." ...

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 ...

Some trees are more than 200 centimeters ... “The conservation of old growth in dry conifer forests of the American West is impossible without due consideration and mitigation of wildfire ...