Giant Sequoia National Monument: The forest with the largest tree in the world (Part – 1)

By Asad Russel –

About the Giant Sequoia National Monument, California, USA:
In the eastern central California in the southern Sierra Nevada is located the Giant Sequoia National Monument which is a National Monument with 328,000 acre, of the Sequoia National Forest as part by the US Forest Service it is administrated and among the 39 Gian Sequoia (Scientific name – Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves 38 of them in the Sequoia National Forest are located, in existence currently of the sequoia groves about half which includes the largest Giant Sequoias, one of the ten largest called the Boole Tree, of 112 feet (about 38 meters) circumference with a base which height is almost 269 feet (about 82 meters). 1,326 square kilometers (824 square miles) covers the forest.

Two sections has the monument. General Grant Grove surrounds the northern section and of the Kings Canyon National Park the other sides and by the Hume Lake Ranger District is administered. The section of the south the Long Meadow Grove which includes, of the Sequoia National Park is to the south directly and by the Western Divide Ranger District is maintained, of the Tule River Indian Reservation surrounding the half of the eastern side. On April 15, 2000 by the President Bill Clinton Proclamation 7295 was the Giant Sequoia National Monument.

In the Giant Sequoia National Monument is found the largest tree of the world, the General Sherman. Although two separate national parks there are technically, in many ways as a single unit operates generally the Sequoia and Kings Canyon. To both parks allows the entrance one fee which cost you about $5 per person and per private vehicle it will cost $20.

The history of the Giant Sequoia National Monument:
For at least 6,000 to 7,000 years in the Southern Sierra lived or have been traveled the humans. In the mountains which is higher and the western foothills into also down, as the Western Mono or the Monache today remembered the lived gatherers and the hunters. In the lowest foothills of the Minache the West and the Yokuts which were a second group of the Great Central Valley also across the expanses.

The edge of the Sierras began to exploring the Spanish in the time between the late 1700s and the early 1800s. To offer had the mountain whatever to exploit into the Sierras seeking poured loggers, miners, trappers and the sheepherders afterwards soon. In the 19th century by the end, for recreation and water to the Sierras looked increasingly the communities of San Joaquin. Competing interests of all these between in the struggle, were born two national parks which become as the Kings Canyon National Parks and Sequoia today why we know now. Today 69 sites of historical interest and 265 archaeological sites of Native American together protects the parks.

At the Giant Sequoia National Monument what to see:
There are many superb thing to see in the Giant Sequoia National Monument like the General Sherman tree and the Tunnel Rock. The close views for the trees mostly provides into the parks driving, so should not be overlooked which do exist the vista points of the roadside.

Will Continue……..

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