NationStates Jolt Archive


And you thought B-Ball players were tall.

Duntscruwithus
08-09-2006, 05:27
Found this earlier while surfing.

Breitbart (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/07/D8K0DB000.html)

A redwood in a remote Northern California coastal forest has been tentatively measured as the world's tallest living thing.

The tree called Hyperion stands at 378.1 feet, eight feet taller than the previous record holder, another coast redwood dubbed Stratosphere Giant in a state park about 90 miles south.

Two amateur California naturalists found the tree earlier this summer during a bushwhacking expedition in search of tall trees. Chris Atkins, credited with discovering the Stratosphere Giant in 2000, and Michael Taylor returned later with scientists to obtain more exact measurements of the tree's height using a tripod-mounted laser.

The team also identified two other redwoods in the same forest taller than the reigning record holder: a tree called Helios at 376.3 feet and another called Icarus at 371.2 feet.

Officials would not pinpoint the exact locations of the trees out of concern that too many visitors could damage the delicate ecology of the mild, foggy slopes where the trees live.

Researchers plan to climb Hyperion in coming weeks and drop a tape measure to confirm its height so it can be entered in the record books, Atkins said.

It always amazes me that anything could grow that tall, and actually survive and thrive. Redwoods are so cool.
M3rcenaries
08-09-2006, 05:30
Ive been to the redwood forests. Pretty neat places.
Neo Undelia
08-09-2006, 05:37
*Adds to list of places to visit if my cheap ass can ever can get over how much vacations cost.*
JuNii
08-09-2006, 05:42
Found this earlier while surfing.

Breitbart (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/07/D8K0DB000.html)



It always amazes me that anything could grow that tall, and actually survive and thrive. Redwoods are so cool.
as cool as that sounds... actually driving through a Redwood is pretty memorable also.
United Chicken Kleptos
08-09-2006, 05:49
Baseball players?
Pyotr
08-09-2006, 05:53
I know something bigger, Phallus pyotrii gigantium
United Chicken Kleptos
08-09-2006, 05:56
I know something bigger, Phallus pyotrii gigantium

Your giant phallus?

...

What the hell's a phallus?
Wilgrove
08-09-2006, 05:58
I've been to the Redwood's forrest. Man it is BEAUTIFUL! It is def. worth the trip.
Pyotr
08-09-2006, 06:04
Your giant phallus?

...

What the hell's a phallus?
wiki it,

if i posted a picture, i'd get banned....
Cannot think of a name
08-09-2006, 06:10
I live in the redwoods. When I post, like right now, I'm actually surrounded by them. I sit outside underneath them during the summer.

And they are the coolest.
Kyronea
08-09-2006, 06:14
Didn't CNN or some other such news organization report that Bush was opening up redwood forests for logging? And that it was only stopped because some court official struck it down?
Neo Undelia
08-09-2006, 06:17
Didn't CNN or some other such news organization report that Bush was opening up redwood forests for logging? And that it was only stopped because some court official struck it down?
First of all, if CNN reported it, then all the networks did, and second I don't see what the point would be. Tree farms have proven to be more that adequate. New logging sites are not necessary in the US.
Wilgrove
08-09-2006, 06:19
Didn't CNN or some other such news organization report that Bush was opening up redwood forests for logging? And that it was only stopped because some court official struck it down?

God if they cut down one Redwood, I would be very mad! I would do something violence but I am trying to pratice non-violence.
Duntscruwithus
08-09-2006, 07:29
Baseball players?

B-Ball. Basketball players.
Cannot think of a name
08-09-2006, 08:13
God if they cut down one Redwood, I would be very mad! I would do something violence but I am trying to pratice non-violence.

Redwoods are surprisingly resiliant. Up in Mendicino there was an attempt to clear cut and then burn out a section of the redwoods and instead it started to form what's called 'angel rings' fairy rings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Family_ring_of_redwoods.jpg) a cluster of new redwoods would surround the burnt stump. Out here in the Santa Cruz mountians where the redwood forest meets the oaks, there are a lot of those angel rings. The saplings grow really quickly. The conservation efforts go towards protecting the old growth redwoods, which are rarer now thanks to logging and development, and those are the really tall ones and the really big ones. We don't have the ones that people generally think about down here, the ones where you can drill a tunnel for cars through, that's further up north. But it's damned pretty here anyway.
Not bad
08-09-2006, 08:51
. We don't have the ones that people generally think about down here, the ones where you can drill a tunnel for cars through, that's further up north. But it's damned pretty here anyway.


Or you can head due East to Sequoia National Park /Kings Canyon National Parks. They have the huge trees there too. 4 of the 5 largest (if not tallest) Redwoods are here. I think coastal redwoods grow taller by a little and inland ones grow broader by a little. General Grant, General Sherman trees are here as well as a tunnel log you can drive through and an auto log you can drive over.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/seki/tunnl_lg.jpg


http://www.nps.gov/archive/seki/autolog.jpg
Cannot think of a name
08-09-2006, 09:16
Or you can head due East to Sequoia National Park /Kings Canyon National Parks. They have the huge trees there too. 4 of the 5 largest (if not tallest) Redwoods are here. I think coastal redwoods grow taller by a little and inland ones grow broader by a little. General Grant, General Sherman trees are here as well as a tunnel log you can drive through and an auto log you can drive over.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/seki/tunnl_lg.jpg


http://www.nps.gov/archive/seki/autolog.jpg
I was thinking of that iconic two lane road through a tree trunk that was still standing, like this one (http://www.htmlhelp.com/~liam/California/Yosemite/MariposaGrove/TunnelTree.jpg) in Yosemite (which is south east of me-well, everything in California that isn't ocean is east of me). I've only done the coastal redwoods. I'm not a fan of going inland, though I eventually should. Maybe if I take a jar full of ocean with me...

Apparently the tree tunnel that I was looking for isn't nearly as iconic as I thought, or my Googling skills are pretty laking. Both are probably true in measure.
Not bad
08-09-2006, 09:34
I was thinking of that iconic two lane road through a tree trunk that was still standing, like this one (http://www.htmlhelp.com/~liam/California/Yosemite/MariposaGrove/TunnelTree.jpg) in Yosemite (which is south east of me-well, everything in California that isn't ocean is east of me). I've only done the coastal redwoods. I'm not a fan of going inland, though I eventually should. Maybe if I take a jar full of ocean with me...

Apparently the tree tunnel that I was looking for isn't nearly as iconic as I thought, or my Googling skills are pretty laking. Both are probably true in measure.

Actually there were quite a few of the drivable tunnels through standing living trees at one time, perhaps a dozen. There are at least three or four left now but I doubt there will ever be another made. Certainly not without a hellacious big stink being raised about it.

Ill see of I can't google up a link or two.
Not bad
08-09-2006, 09:36
I'm a demon surfer I guess

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CAPHItree.html