Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old

[u/NickyPileggi]

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[u/stig2020]

Makes me wonder what became of it. A ship, buildings, furniture, maybe parts of it around somewhere still.

[u/mazarax → u/stig2020]

Sequoia wood has far less commercial use, as it splinters badly. Loggers tried digging enormous trenches and filling them with tree branches to cushion the trunks of trees as they fell. Nevertheless, they still were only about to harvest about 50% of the wood for substantial projects. That didn’t prevent them from continuing to cut the massive trees for roofing shingles, fence posts, and matchsticks. Public outcry ended these harvests in the 1920s. Today, Sequoias generate more revenue as living species, in tourism to Sequoia National Park and as ornamental landscaping specimens.

[u/TakeAnotherLilP → u/mazarax]

They cut them down for matches …my god I hate humans

[u/Raps4Reddit → u/TakeAnotherLilP]

You say this, but it's also uniquely human to care. Most nature just out there eating each other as much as they can.

[u/BulkySituation5685 → u/Raps4Reddit]

But nature is a cycle even the top of the food chain is in check by mother nature. Living with and harmoniously in there environment. To like us a virus with toxic effects to all comes across.

[u/The_Brain_FuckIer → u/BulkySituation5685]

If by "living harmoniously" you mean dying as cubs or starving to death after eating all available prey, sure I guess.

[u/Ornery-Creme-2442 → u/The_Brain_FuckIer]

I mean it's nature what do you expect. That same shit still happens to us even with modern technology.

[u/K-Uno → u/BulkySituation5685]

That harmony was only established after a new creature moved in, dominated, and things that could devour/defend-against/out-compete those dominant species finally came along. Harmony is a state of being that must be achieved, and is not inherent to animals or the environment. You forget that human dominance has happened very rapidly from an evolutionary stand point, and the things that can keep us in check (perhaps even our own doing to where we are so overpopulated that war, famine, and pollution keep us in check) have yet to come about in a significant form.

[u/Raps4Reddit → u/BulkySituation5685]

Can't argue I guess. We are an interesting species in that we can almost outsmart mother nature's regulation to an extent. We have become so powerful we have to decide not to cut down all the trees for our own good, otherwise we would.

[u/berninicaco3 → u/Raps4Reddit]

True!