The specimen has been in the Museum since 1893, after the tree was felled in California. After more than a century on public display as part of the Museum's botany collections, it needed cleaning and ...

Despite the efforts of advocates working to save the tree, the Boardwalk Condominiums’ 100-foot-tall redwood known by many as Big Red is scheduled to be cut down starting March ...

The tree’s canopy went from green to auburn red. In July, the tree stopped taking ... There was a drum circle and commemorative cards: “Sequoia Legacy Tree; 1936-2025.” ...

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 ...