Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Redwoods breif area history and some facts about the remaining redwoods

The Biggest living organism on this Earth is the "General Sherman" the volume of the Sherman Tree was calculated to be slightly over 52.500 cubic feet (1486.6 meters).


Height above Base 274.9 83.8
Circumference at Ground 102.6 31.1
Maximum Diameter at Base 36.5 11.1
Diameter 60' (18.3 m) above base 17.5 5.3
Diameter 180' (54.9 m) above base 14.0 4.3
Diameter of Largest Branch 6.8 2.1
Height of First Large Branch above the Base 130.0 39.6
Average Crown Spread 106.5 32.5