Genesis Tree

For the tree in the Legend of Legaia game, see Genesis (tree).
The Genesis Tree is the 7th largest tree in the world.

The Genesis Tree is a giant sequoia that is the seventh largest tree in the world.[1] It is located within the Mountain Home Grove, a giant sequoia grove located in Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California.[2] The Genesis Tree was heavily damaged by the Castle Fire in 2020.[3]

History

The tree was named and discovered by Wendell Flint and Mike Law in 1985 while searching for "big trees" in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.[4] They measured a massive, previously undocumented, tree that they observed in the Mountain Home giant sequoia grove, and determined that it is slightly smaller than the Boole tree in the Converse Basin grove in Sequoia National Forest, but with a more slender base and larger trunk.[5] The Genesis Tree is also slightly larger than what was then the seventh largest tree in the world - the Franklin tree in the Giant Forest grove of Sequoia National Park - thereby making the Genesis Tree the seventh largest overall, and the largest tree in the Mountain Home grove.[1]

Dimensions

The dimensions of the Genesis Tree as measured by Wendell D. Flint. The calculated volume ignores burns.[4] The volume of the tree after the Castle Fire remains unmeasured.

Metres Feet
Height above base 78.49 257.5
Circumference at ground 26.0 85.3
Circumference 4.5 ft (1.4 m) above ground[5] 21.5 70.7
Diameter 5 ft (1.5 m) above ground 6.86 22.5
Diameter 60 ft (18.3 m) above ground 5.15 16.9
Diameter 120 ft (36.6 m) above ground 4.57 15.0
Diameter 180 ft (54.9 m) above ground 3.20 10.5
Estimated volume (m3.ft3) 1,186.4 41,897

By 2013, the tree had grown to 86.2 meters (282.8 feet) in height and attained a girth of 24.04 meters (78.9 feet) at 1.37 meters (4.5 feet) above the base.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Flint, Wendell D. (1988). "The Genesis Tree" (PDF). Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest Newsletter. 1988 (8): 1–8. Retrieved 2011-08-19.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Mountain Home Grove". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ Morris, George III; Dennis, Carrie. "2020 Fire Siege" (PDF). Cal Fire. p. 82. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  4. ^ a b Flint, Wendell D.; Law, Mike (2002). To Find the Biggest Tree (2nd ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. pp. 66–68. ISBN 1878441094.
  5. ^ a b Flint, Wendell D. (1987). To Find the Biggest Tree (1st ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. pp. 52–54, 112. ISBN 0685300498.
  6. ^ "Giant Sequoia 'Genesis' east of Balch Park, Mountain Home Demonstration Forest, California, United States".

Further reading

  • Flint, Wendell D.; Law, Mike (2002). To Find the Biggest Tree (2nd ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. ISBN 1878441094.

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