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Alex in
Everything Else on Sep 10, 2006 at 10:19 pm
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From the website:
The Stratosphere Giant, the world’s reigning tallest living tree, seems to have lost its title — to not one but three contenders.
Like the 370-foot Giant, the three trees are coast redwoods. They were discovered this summer in Redwood National Park near Eureka by a team of California researchers who spend most of their free time bushwhacking through North Coast forests in search of taller and taller trees. …
The tallest of the three new finds, a redwood named Hyperion, measures 378.1 feet. Next in line, Helios, stands at 376.3 feet; Icarus, the third, reaches 371.2 feet.
Redwood experts say the discovery is a bit surprising considering that so much of the state’s redwood forests have been logged.
A neat SF Gate article: Link – Thanks Spluch!
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