SEQUOIAS’ LAST STAND
A tree stands tall. There, in a forest in California, it grows. By volume it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. It is a giant sequoia estimated to be 2,200 years old.
The tree sprouted out of the ground between the births of Buddha and Jesus Christ. The tree is that old and it, too, has a name: General Sherman. In 1879, James Wolverton, a naturalist and Civil War veteran, named it after William Tecumseh Sherman, a general for the Union during the US Civil War.
General Sherman, the man, is perhaps best known for his march to the sea, which began with burning almost all of the
