NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The Giant Sequoias of California

COVER (1955 edition)

Cover. Base of General Grant Tree, Kings Canyon National Park

INTRODUCTION

DESCRIPTION OF THE GIANT SEQUOIA

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GIANT SEQUOIA AND REDWOOD

DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF THE SEQUOIAS

DISTRIBUTION OF THE GIANT SEQUOIAS

SIZE OF THE GIANT SEQUOIA

AGE OF THE GIANT SEQUOIAS

ENEMIES OF THE GIANT SEQUOIA

GEOLOGICAL RECORD OF THE SEQUOIAS

CONSERVATION OF THE GIANT SEQUOIAS

ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION OF THE GIANT SEQUOIA

CONCLUSION

BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND LOCATION OF GIANT SEQUOIA GROVES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(cover to 1942 edition)

FIGURE

Frontispiece In the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

1 Young sequoias

2 The President Tree, Sequoia National Park

3 Fallen sequoias

4 Foliage and cones of the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)

5 Foliage and cone of the giant sequoia (Sequoia gigantea)

6 Wawona Tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

7 Round Meadow, Sequoia National Park

8 General Grant Tree, General Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park

9 General Sherman Tree, Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park

10 The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

11 Fire-scarred giant sequoias

12 Judge Walter Fry, first civilian superintendent of Sequoia National Park, standing beside a sequoia stub that has nearly completely covered itself with bark

13 Stricken Tree, Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park

14 Map showing location of the giant sequoia groves and the relative distribution of the giant sequoias and redwoods