This is founded on the fact that while many of the large Sequoias are greatly damaged by fire, the large pines and firs around them are quite uninjured.
The explanation of this is, that during the long summer drought the loose surface débris is so dried up that the roots of the seedling Sequoias perish before they can penetrate the earth beneath.
The scarcity of young Sequoias strikes every visitor, the fact being that they are only to be found in certain favored spots.
The arrangement suggests that the bigtree forest was cut in sections by glaciers which descended from the high mountains to the plains, a distance of one hundred miles or more, crossing the belt of sequoias at right angles.
There were five species of sequoias in the northern hemisphere, in Europe and America, before the ice age.
Next to incense cedar and the giant sequoias which are associated with it in the Sierra Nevada mountains, it is the most prolific seed bearer of the western conifers, and its seeds are sufficiently light to insure wide distribution.
There was another spot where giant trees like sequoias made a cathedral-like atmosphere, and it seemed an impiety to speak.
I see," said Jamison above the rocket-thunder, "forests of giant trees like the sequoias of Mother Earth.
Those of the second type (Ulmannia) may be referred to the same group with the magnificent Sequoias or Redwoods of California.
Stacy lay down, and the others quickly cradled under their blankets and went to sleep, watched over by the huge Sequoias that had stood sentinel on that very spot for hundreds of years.
Whereas all other forests in which they had traveled, were continually nodding and murmuring, the giant Sequoiasstood in absolute calm.
And in fact, south of Kings' River, the Sequoias stretch in an almost unbroken forest for seventy miles.
Why, these Sequoias might have formed one continuous forest from the American River on South, if it had not been for the glaciers that swept down the great basins of the San Joaquin and Kings' River, the Tuolumne and the Stanislaus.
You'll find Sequoiasflourishing in a mere rift in a granite precipice.
Distinct from all others, the sequoias are a race apart.
Jordan estimates that the oldest of the sequoias is at least 7000 years old.
Giant Forest is also the name of the village beneath the sequoias where the Giant Forest Lodge and the housekeeping and auto camps are situated.
It is a curious fact that all the very old sequoias had lost their heads by lightning strokes.
Toward the south where the sequoia becomes most exuberant and numerous, the rival trees become less so; and where they mix with sequoias they grow up beneath them like slender grasses among stalks of Indian corn.
Still more remarkable are the Sequoias to which we have already referred, but which in the Laramie age seem to have been spread over nearly all North America.
Sequoias of many varieties ranged far into northern Canada.
Under the gigantic pines, firs, and ancient sequoias of these extraordinary forests, increasing thousands spend summer weeks and months.
This group of giant sequoias (Sequoia washingtoniana) ranks next, in the number and magnificence of its trees, to the Giant Forest of the Sequoia National Park and the General Grant grove.
The sequoias are considered at greater length in the chapter describing the Sequoia National Park, which was created especially to conserve and exhibit more than a million of these most interesting of trees.
Several of the sequoias of the Mariposa grove approach three hundred feet in height.
It only remains, to complete this new tale of the Arabian Nights, to make one's first visit to the sequoias of Mariposa Grove.
Some twenty-four species of fossil sequoias are known, fourteen of which are Tertiary.
Thus the growth of these eighteen sequoias on relatively dry slopes appears to have depended chiefly on the rainfall of the second and third preceding rainy seasons.
Correlation Coefficients between Rainfall and Growth of Sequoiasin California 80 4.
Just how widely the sequoias can be used as a measure of the climate of the past is not yet certain.
They are so high and so consistent that they scarcely leave room for doubt that where a hundred or more sequoias are employed, as in Fig.
In other words the growth of the sequoias is a good indication of the rainfall where the trees grow and in the dry region farther east.
It must be remembered that in some respects the growth of the sequoias is a much better record of rainfall than are the records kept by man.
But the correlation coefficient between the rainfall of eight-year periods at Naples, a little farther north, and the growth of the sequoias at the end of the periods is -0.
Hence in comparing the growth of the huge sequoias with the rainfall we should expect a correlation coefficient high enough to be convincing, but decidedly below 1.
Indeed, more care is needed for the trees than for the great chasm, for man cannot permanently injure the distinctive features of the latter, while the destruction of the sequoias will be an irreparable loss to the State and to the world.
The sequoias dominate among splendid rivals only by a magnitude that has no comparison elsewhere in the world.
Libocedrus decurrens), possess a great advantage, and, though they strive in vain to emulate their size, wholly overpower the Sequoias in numbers.
When their site was covered by glaciers, these Sequoias must have occupied other stations, if, as there is reason to believe, they then existed in the land.
Our third question remains to be answered: Have these famous Sequoiasplayed in former times and upon a larger stage a more imposing part, of which the present is but the epilogue?
They are excelled in size only by the mammoth redwood trees of northern California and the giant Sequoias of the southern Sierras.
Only among the giant Sequoiasof the Tule and King's River district are there to be found baby trees of that species.
As we have said, the prairie extended to this enormous mass of sequoias which formed its edge.
They shook the group of sequoias to their very roots.
At the close of the day, a very cold damp night enveloped the island, and the space shaded by the sequoias was plunged in profound obscurity.
It comprised among the sequoias attached one to another that in which the poultry had established themselves, and Godfrey's intention was to build a stable inside it.
The summits of the sequoias were glowing in the first rays of the sun.
But at that instant there appeared through the opening a gleaming of eyes in the depths of the darkness which the shadow of the sequoias rendered still more profound.
Godfrey thought then, if not of fortifying Will Tree according to the famous plans of Tartlet, at least of connecting the four or five large sequoias which surrounded it.
On the morrow, the first trunks, sunk two feet in the soil, began to rise in such a manner as to connect the principal sequoias which surrounded Will Tree.
Considered not only individually, but taken as a group, the Sequoias are among the oldest of the old.
Once the sequoias had a wide distribution in the Old and the New World.
No forest tree except sequoiasequals the Douglas spruce in massiveness of trunk and yield of straight-grained lumber.
But what Stonehenge is to England, the Giralda to Spain, and the Alps to Switzerland, that, I think, is the Mariposa Forest of giant Sequoias to California.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sequoias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
