Beloved giant Sequoia Legacy Tree in Visalia must come down due to infection and safety reasons

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Roots tally heavy connected the country of Acequia Avenue and Locust Street successful Downtown Visalia.

The City's historical Sequoia Legacy Tree has been astir for astir a century.

The histrion was 3 years aged erstwhile it was planted close adjacent to the station bureau successful 1936.

The Visit Visalia Organization says for information the histrion indispensable beryllium removed due to the fact that it's been battling a fungus infection.

"It precise rapidly made the histrion die. You tin spot it from starting from the apical down and the mode that the fungus was increasing successful the mode the histrion was dying. We attempted to get it treated, truthful respective months were spent connected attempting to dainty this 1 and effort to reverse that process and it conscionable wasn't effective," explains Suzanne Bianco with Visit Visalia.

She says sequoia trees aren't meant to unrecorded connected the Valley floor.

Plus, the caller bedewed winters paired with precise blistery summers had an interaction connected the tree's health.

"It's bittersweet to spot it spell but recognize that it wasn't meant to unrecorded down present and truthful we're conscionable blessed that it had the clip that it did and we were capable to item it to our assemblage to the visitors to our area," says Suzanne.

The Visalia Sequoia Legacy histrion sits astatine 65-feet tall.

Visit Visalia says different absorbing happening astir the tract is the pavement astir the histrion signifies General Sherman Tree's trunk, giving visitors a glimpse of what they volition spot erstwhile they caput retired to our section nationalist parks.

"So the "aha" due to the fact that erstwhile you are up successful the parkland you can't truly get adjacent to the General Sherman, it's a protected item," mentions Visit Visalia's Executive Director, Sherrie Bakke.

Bakke says determination are plans to repurpose the tree's wood and grant the tract with thing new.

Locals are invited to stock their ideas.

"It besides gives america a full caller accidental to supply immoderate acquisition astir Visalia's relation and our narration to the nationalist parks," explains Bakke.

A ceremonial close adjacent to the station office, connected Locust and Acequia, volition instrumentality spot connected Thursday astatine 4:00 P.M.

The nationalist is invited to assistance wage tribute to the beloved section elephantine sequoia.

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