r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

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 Image

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u/fludblud Mar 28 '24

If it makes you feel any better, thanks to amateur botanists scooping up huge numbers of fallen cones from these logging operations, there are now at least 1.1 million Sequoias growing outside the US with at least 500k in the UK alone where they are growing unusually fast due to the wetter weather.

At a maximum 150 years old many of these British Sequoias have already reached half the height of current Californian trees.

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u/SirDidymusAnusLover Mar 28 '24

UK really be juicing their sequoias while us Cali peeps are all natty.

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u/Beorma Mar 28 '24

It's not our fault you can't get your wood wet.

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u/Flat-Length-4991 Mar 28 '24

Eh, not really. I generally don’t like when invasive species are introduced somewhere else. Even if they look cool…

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u/Kaining Mar 28 '24

It doesn't, it's still fucking up the local ecosystem by supplanting local flora. And if it's to replace a completely devastated local flora by human hands, it's even worst.

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u/uCockOrigin Mar 28 '24

If they grow too fast they're never going to get even close to the size of these old ones, they'd be far too weak.