There are two other giant sequoias – each approaching 100 feet tall – that survived the 1948 planting by the Gray family. The Grays planted 80 species of trees in their arboretum on the property.

It was found in 2008, when forestry workers analyzing aerial laser scanning data identified the tree as a 99.76 m tall giant. In 2018, I measured its height using laser ground measurement.

But the Washburn fire burning now in Yosemite National Park, licking around the edges of the roughly 500 giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove — some over 200 feet tall and more than 2,000 years old ...

A recent addition to the Old-Growth Forest Network, the preserve is not only home to the giant trees, but also 80 acres of younger forest that serves as a buffer around the big trees, as well as a ...

When COVID-19 struck, it kept the men from traveling to measure the trees. By spring of 2021, the trio was itching to find out if the trees could possibly be as tall as the LiDAR foretold.

Giant sequoias, officially called Sequoiadendron giganteum, are the largest trees on Earth by volume. The biggest sequoia stands 275 feet tall, with a diameter of 36 feet at its base.

These colossal trees can grow between 75 and 90 meters (250 and 300 feet) tall. Even more impressive, these trees can have diameters of nine meters (30 feet).

And now, this giant holds a statewide title: It’s Florida’s new champion live oak tree, the largest of its species in the state.

There are only 941 trees taller than 65 metres in the giant tree map of Taiwan we maintain at the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute in Taipei; Great White is one of them.