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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (341126)	1/9/2003 6:31:52 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

I think he is talking about Big Stump. The sights at Big Stump illustrate the history of logging among the giant sequoia in this part of the Sierra. Early in the 1880s, almost an entire grove of the giants had disappeared. The names of some trees and stumps speak for themselves: Shattered Tree, Burnt Monarch, Sawed Tree, and the Mark Twain Stump. The Twain Stump is interesting because it was cut down after General Grant National Park was formed in 1890. Apparently the Twain tree was just outside the old boundary, which was updated 75 years later to include the stump in the protection of the park. A slice or cross-section of the tree was shipped to New York for display in the American Museum of Natural History. One living specimen teaches an interesting lesson about the giant sequoia. A lightning strike took off the top 20 or 25 feet of the Resurrection Tree many years ago. The resilient tree appears to be growing a new top.