Beautiful Earth – Amazing Sequioa TreesFeatured Videos, Nature
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 Stunningly beautiful, short video
showing Sequioa trees. Sequoia sempervirens is the sole living
species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae
(formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast
redwood, California redwood, and giant redwood. It is an
evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200 — 1800 years
or more. This species includes the tallest trees on Earth,
reaching up to 379 feet (115.5 m) in height (without the roots)
and up to 26 feet (7.9 m) diameter at breast height. Before
commercial logging and clearing began by the 1850s, this massive
tree occurred naturally in an estimated 2,100,000 acres (8,500
km2) along much of coastal California (excluding southern
California where rainfall is not abundant enough) and the
southwestern corner of coastal Oregon within the United States.
It is estimated that more than 95% of the original old-growth
redwood forest has been cut down f