Redwood Mountain Grove

Redwood Mountain Grove is the largest grove of Giant Sequoias on earth. [cite book|title=Kings Canyon National Park: A Complete Hiker's Guide|author=Mike White|pages=51|publisher=Wilderness Press|date=2004] It is located in Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Forest, at coord|36|41|38|N|118|55|08|W in California's Sierra Nevada. The grove contains the world's tallest Giant Sequoia (311 feet) [cite web |url=http://www.conifers.org/cu/se2/index.htm |title=Gymnosperm Database: "Sequoiadendron giganteum" |accessdate=2007-06-10 |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=The tallest known giant sequoia is a specimen 94.9 m tall, first measured August 1998 in the Redwood Mountain Grove, California] (as opposed to the largest, by volume, the General Sherman Tree, which is in the Giant Forest grove, to the south) but this grove does also contain two of the 25 largest giant sequoias in the world, The Hart Tree, and Roosevelt Tree.

Noteworthy trees

Some of the trees found in the grove that are worthy of special note are:

*Roosevelt: the largest tree in the grove with a volume of over 35,000 cubic feet.
*Hart Tree: standing near by the Roosevelt stands a very tall tree with a huge basal burn, this tree has a volume of around 34,500 cubic feet.

ee also

*Giant Sequoias

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