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Mother of the Forest
Giant Sequoia
in
Calaveras North Grove
on
North Grove- Big Trees Trail
in
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
,
Stanislaus NF
,
Sierra Nevada
near
Arnold
,
CA
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The huge blackened snag in front of you is named the Mother of the Forest, and is one of several trees in this grove that were severely harmed by human activity. In order to prove the great size of the newly discovered mammoth trees, speculators removed the first 116 feet (35.4 m) of bark in 1854 so that it could be reassembled for display elsewhere. With its protective bark removed, the layer of tissue just under the bark carries manufactured sugars throughout the tree was exposed, slowly killing the tree. By 1861, the Mother of the Forest had lost all of its leaves and died. With the outer layer of protective bark gone, the tree lost all of its resistance to fire, as can be seen by the wood charred in the fire of 1908. If you look closely you can still see the horizontal saw marks in the wood that were made in re- moving the bark.
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The Mother of the Forest (667 BCE – c1856 CE) was an ancient and huge Sequoiadendron giganteum tree. The tree lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern central California, United States. The dead tree's remains are within the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees State Park, in Calaveras County, California.
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Taxonomy
Plant
Plantae
KINGDOM
424,419
Tracheophyta
PHYLUM
386,076
Pinopsida
CLASS
1,126
Tree
9
Pinales
ORDER
1,125
Cypress
Cupressaceae
FAMILY
297
Redwood Tree
Sequoioideae
SUBFAMILY
8
Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron
GENUS
1
Classified As
Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron (genus)
Ecology
Central Sierra Mid-Montane Forests
Ecoregion
Sierra Nevada Forests
Ecoregion
Sierra Nevada
Ecoregion
Mother of the Forest
Mother of the Forest
Mother of the Forest
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