A couple of weeks ago, I submitted a post regarding sixty-inch pine trees in the Sierra. Now, a sixty-inch tree is a large tree anywhere, but there are, in fact, much larger trees in California. This past week, I stopped and put my tape on a Sequoia. It was 221 inches in diameter at breast height (DBH). That means that if you cut through the tree at DBH, the stump would be 18 feet across. If you want to know how big around it was, you need to multiply the diameter by pi. Thus, the circumference of my sequoia tree was roughly 60 feet.
we found a Jeffrey a couple weeks ago we estimated (family group hug-style) at 8' diameter. Our forest has a Big Tree register, but this was just outside the Basin. The record is close, maybe I should nominate it - http://www.americanforests.org/bigtree/pinus-jeffreyi-3/
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Kass, it has been a year since I last saw your kids, but how they've grown . . . their arms are so long you don't need a D-tape. Interestingly, the American Forests record holder is actually two stems. The rule for calculating volume is that you count two trees if it forks below DBH, but one tree if it forks above DBH. According to the American Forests website, they only count it as two trees if it forks at the ground.
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