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montana_hazeleyes

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5. Damn.

Reply to NWCorona (Original post)

Mon Jan 9, 2017, 05:36 AM

Jan 2017

There is nothing like these trees.
I 've been amongst the huge, enormous trees at Yosemite. As you stand there with them, you are in another world. Their world. The Mariposa Grove. They are the biggest and oldest beings on earth.

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After More Than 100 Years, California's Iconic Tunnel Tree Is No More [View all] NWCorona Jan 2017 OP

Yes, in better times we could have hope for its offspring angstlessk Jan 2017 #1

Ha! Bucky Jan 2017 #6

Believed to be hundreds of years old? Bad copy Brother Buzz Jan 2017 #2

Exactly! Cattledog Jan 2017 #4

Exactly. Ten-hundred. Orrex Jan 2017 #12

How sad. n/t Little Tich Jan 2017 #3

Damn. montana_hazeleyes Jan 2017 #5

Well said. Duppers Jan 2017 #7

Yup. The trees talk to you. They really do. zonkers Jan 2017 #10

For sure. Hoyt Jan 2017 #8

Agree! mountain grammy Jan 2017 #25

... handmade34 Jan 2017 #9

Likewise. . . most of my family lives in Tulare County ET Awful Jan 2017 #13

Beautiful! classof56 Jan 2017 #19

Standing in a redwood forest is like being in a natural cathedral Zorro Jan 2017 #11

So is it just going to rot back to the ground or will they sell it? snooper2 Jan 2017 #14

it will lie on the ground and be reabsorbed into the forest pfitz59 Jan 2017 #16

Indeed Plucketeer Jan 2017 #22

Oh no! denbot Jan 2017 #15

Would probably still be there.. Chakaconcarne Jan 2017 #17

Okay, that's enough. Iggo Jan 2017 #18

My first thought jeffreyi Jan 2017 #26

Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks Bayard Jan 2017 #20

My late father-in-law got stuck in a hallowed out tree packman Jan 2017 #21

what's really sad to me barbtries Jan 2017 #23

But, but trees are evil. "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." - Ronald Reagan, 1981 Brother Buzz Jan 2017 #24

that was not reassuring. barbtries Jan 2017 #27

Sadly they've been cutting down these magnificent giants for a long time... FailureToCommunicate Jan 2017 #28