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SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Wednesday marked Sequoia National Park's 133rd birthday, parkland unit say.
On Sept. 25, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed authorities establishing Sequoia National Park arsenic America's 2nd nationalist park.
According to rangers, Sequoia was the archetypal nationalist parkland formed to support a surviving organism, Sequoiadendron giganteum, besides known arsenic the Giant Sequoia.
The authorities protects astir 40 Giant Sequoia groves passim the 404,063-acre parkland - and according to biologists, each grove contains up to tens of thousands of trees.
Standing retired among its peers is the General Sherman Tree, the largest histrion by measurement connected the satellite astatine 52,508 cubic feet.
In summation to being 1 of the planet's largest organisms, sequoias besides marque up immoderate of the world's oldest; it took the General Sherman Tree astir 2,200 years to scope its existent tallness of 274.9 feet - and it is inactive growing.
