The Dyerville Giant fell to earth in 1991.
The Dyerville Giant was a 113-meter (370-foot) coast redwood tree, taller than the Statue of Liberty, in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. The crash was so loud that people in the closest towns thought it was the noise of a big train accident. The redwood’s fall moved the earth so much that it registered on a nearby seismograph, a device scientists use to measure earthquakes.
Dave Stockton, who runs the Humboldt Redwoods Interpretive Association, remembers visiting the downed redwood the day after it fell. He walks alongside the tree past its base, where its unburied roots stick up from the ground like a giant antler, and points into the distance.
“I found pieces of the redwood tree 400 feet away on the other side of the highway,” Stockton says.
The toppled Dyerville Giant is one of the many amazing trees that Stockton shows me while walking around the park one fall afternoon. Redwood trees are the tallest trees in the world, and the 21,448-hectare (53,000-acre) park is home to 130 trees that rise more than 107 meters (350 feet) into the air.
The park’s redwood trees are called coast redwoods, and their range stretches along the coast of California from Big Sur in the south to the Oregon border in the north. There are two other types of redwood trees in the world: China’s dawn redwood and California’s giant sequoia, a shorter, wider tree located in the western Sierra Nevada Mountains. The tallest coast redwood is in Redwood National Park, nicknamed the Hyperion Tree. The previous record-holder was the Stratosphere Tree, found in Redwoods State Park.
Rockefeller Forest
One of Humboldt Redwoods State Park’s finest features is the 2,833-hectare (7,000-acre) Rockefeller Forest, a collection of redwoods that were never cut down by the area’s logging companies. Before Stockton and I begin walking the 1.1-kilometer (0.7-mile) Rockefeller Loop Trail through the forest, we look at the giant trees, whose twisted bark makes the redwoods look like oversized strands of braided rope.
“That’s considered the finest grove of redwoods that ever grew,” Stockton says.
( source – https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/tall-trees/ )
other resources regards TREES …
- https://treelogic.com.au
https://internationaltreefoundation.org/uk-tree-planting/
