Tallest tree found in Redwood National Park (Part 2)

The newly discovered giant in Redwoods National Park in Humboldt County, California, stretches 379 feet toward the sky, almost six stories higher than the Statue of Liberty. Here's a cool video of the naturalists who spotted, measured and climbed it.

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[lustacapulco]

but its not the tallest, i read about eucalyptus in australia, those are taller. 400 ft or more.

[redwoodcoaster]

There were likely eucalyptus that were taller a century ago, but they were cut down and now the giant in Redwood National Park is the tallest living tree. In fact, the park has most of the top 20.

[LovelyYTRocks]

4 questions:

1) Can this tree still grow? About how much each year?

2) When a tree is classified as "living", it means it will still grow, right?

3) How do you know if a tree is dead or alive?

4) What's the world's tallest dead tree?

[redwoodcoaster]

The world's tallest dead tree is perhaps the Dyerville Giant, an almost 400-foot redwood in Southern Humboldt County that collapsed with a mighty crash in 1991.

[LaughingTortoise]

Is this tree a sequoia?

[redwoodcoaster]

Yes and no. The scientific name is Sequoia sempervirens, but the more common name is coastal redwood. The tree commonly known as the Sequoia is a redwood cousin that grows farther east in California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The so-called Giant Sequoias, scientific name Sequoiadendron giganteum, are not as tall as rewoods, but are often thicker around the waist, giving them more mass. In short, the redwoods are like basketball players and the Sequoias are like football players.

[rephaim23]

I was reading Michael Taylor's site, and apparently Hyperion is 379.5 feet tall above "average" ground level, but at its lowest side of the trunk it is about 386 feet tall.

So in my mind, I would call this 386 footer -- going against all standard tree measurement rules, logic and geometry... I just think it's only reasonable to measure the extreme height of a tree at its greatest distance above ground level. Not average height. Etremes are extremes. This is an extremely tall tree.

[Crosby4hyg]

I drove through this forest today and hiked through miles of it. It's one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen and I can't believe that there are people in the world who are short-sighted enough to cut down a 2000 year old tree for a paycheck.

[5tonyvvvv]

@redwoodcoaster Have you seen any signs of Bigfoot out there?

[rephaim23]

There was also a 424 ft Redwood logged in 1886 near the Elk river, and of course the many accounts of 400 foot Eucalyptus trees measured as fallen specimens in Australia in the 1800's.

[rephaim23]

The article showed this monster whatcom tree next to the Space Needle, and the darn tree was almost as tall.

[rephaim23]

Too bad 99% of the biggest and tallest Douglas fir are all logged.

[rephaim23]

400 foot+ monster Douglas firs were occasionally recorded by lumbermen in the Puget sound and BC. The Seattle Times recently featured a story of a 465 ft fir which was felled near Bellingham in 1897. The article includes a photo of the cross section, which has a placard with the dimensions. It was 220 ft to the first limb.

[0penSourceDc]

Just Waouu....

[OpticJBigBalls]

is this tree still growing ?

[treeoftears]

@frizzybob nope

[CommentAccountA]

@frizzybob

Yes, that's wrong.