THE INTERNATIONAL

SEQUOIA FOREST
• WHAT DO WE CALL SEQUOIA?
• WHERE IS LOCATED THIS FOREST?
• WHO DISCOVERED THE SEQUOIA FOREST?

Those questions will be answered in this exposition:

•Sequoia National Forest is located in the
southern Sierra Nevada mountains of
California.
The forest is named after a tree called
Sequoia that can reach one hundred and
seventeen meters in height without
counting the roots that reach 7 meters.
This forest is also known for having the
much-named: The largest tree in the
world.
•HOW MANY YEARS CAN A SEQUOIA LIVE?
Giant sequoias can live for more than
3,000 years and produce new wood
every year. They have so much wood,
leaves, and cones, they have more
than any other tree in the world.
 NOW I WILL TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE
SEQUOIAS:

In the winter of 1852, while chasing an injured brown bear

in the mountains of eastern California, a hunter named
Augustus T. Dowd came across a very large tree. It had
red-orange bark and clouds of sea-green needles, and it
would have taken more than a dozen men at arms length to
surround it. When Dowd told his campmates what he had
found, they laughed. Then he took them to see the tree.
 Newspapers trumpeted the discovery, calling the
find, long known to Native Americans, “the Wild
Mastodon” and “the Plant Monster.” Soon another
group of men returned to Dowd’s tree and, perhaps
inevitably, cut it down. They all counted the rings
on the felled trunk differently: one reporter
estimated it to be 2,500 years old, another 4,000,
and a third 6,500. “It must have been a little plant
when Samson was killing the Philistines,” wrote
one.