Giant sequoias are among the largest organisms in the world ... The careful treatment process exposed the natural surface of the wood, enhancing its appearance by revealing the sequoia's growth rings.

Everybody counted the rings on the felled trunk differently ... William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to New ...

Each ring on the sequoia's surface represents one year ... "Time is so vast," Wing says, "that this giant slab of a tree is just scratching the surface." [1] Read: Ancient tree with record of ...

That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely look at it all. It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron ...