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From: Mickey Kendrick <mickeykendrick82@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Fwd: 3200 Yrs. of History in One Picture
Date: August 20, 2018 at 1:44:11 PM EDT
To: Beth Kendrick <bethannkendrick@xxxxxxxxx>, Rusty & Joy Dawson
<jkdawson66@xxxxxxxxx>, Maddy Polson <madppolson@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Fwd: 3200 Yrs. of History in One Picture
At Sequoia National Park...
Thankfully, no loggers took it down, nor forest fires or
earthquakes!
Just a quiet life in a California forest for all these years
....
Not every tree has a nickname, but 'The President' has earned it.
This giant sequoia stands at 247 feet tall & is estimated to be over
3,200 years old. Imagine, this tree was already 700 years old during the
height of ancient Greece's civilization and 1200 years old when Jesus
lived and Rome was well into its rule of most of the western world and
points beyond.
The trunk of The President measures at 27 feet across,
with 2 BILLION needles From base to top.
Because of its unbelievable size, this tree has never been
photographed in its entirety, until now. National Geographic photographers
have worked along with scientists to try and create the first photo that
shows the President in all its glory.
They had to Climb the tree with pulleys and levers, and took thousands
of photos. Of those, they selected 126 and stitched them together, to get
this incredible portrait of the President. And here it is:
The man standing near the trunk of the tree is a good indicator of the
tree's size.
Incredible, isn't it?
