The tree was named and discovered by Wendell Flint and Mike Law in 1985 while searching for "big trees" in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.[4] They measured a massive, previously undocumented, tree that they observed in the Mountain Home giant sequoia grove, and determined that it is slightly smaller than the Boole tree in the Converse Basin grove in Sequoia National Forest, but with a more slender base and larger trunk.[5] The Genesis tree is also slightly larger than what was then the seventh largest tree in the world - the Franklin tree in the Giant Forest grove of Sequoia National Park - thereby making the Genesis the seventh largest tree overall, and the largest tree in the Mountain Home grove.[1]
Dimensionsedit
The dimensions of the Genesis Tree as measured by Wendell D. Flint. The calculated volume ignores burns.[4] The volume of the tree after the Castle Fire remains unmeasured.
By 2013, the tree had grown to 86.2 meters (282.8 feet) in height and attained a girth of 24.04 meters (78.9 feet) at 1.37 meters (4.5 feet) above the base.[6]
^Morris, George III; Dennis, Carrie. "2020 Fire Siege" (PDF). Cal Fire. p. 82.
^ abFlint, Wendell D.; Law, Mike (2002). To Find the Biggest Tree (2nd ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. pp. 66–68. ISBN1878441094.
^ abFlint, Wendell D. (1987). To Find the Biggest Tree (1st ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. pp. 52–54, 112. ISBN0685300498.
^"Giant Sequoia 'Genesis' east of Balch Park, Mountain Home Demonstration Forest, California, United States".
Further readingedit
Flint, Wendell D.; Law, Mike (2002). To Find the Biggest Tree (2nd ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. ISBN1878441094.
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