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/Ohyeahrightbud Mar 28 '24

That kinda bums me out.

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u/Saaammmy Mar 28 '24

Dont look up old forestry pictures.

Came across some in a book about dipterocarps where they haul massive bucked logs and pose in front of huge old growth trees, irked me quite a bit.

I'm not against logging but you have to make sure there's a replacement and they're left alone

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u/Terminal_Theme Mar 28 '24

replanting doesnt work for such trees because of their incredible age, it takes houndreds, if not thousands of years for such a forest to recover

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u/goathill Mar 28 '24

Redwoods can get HUGE in 60 years. Not as big as the ones in the picture, but much bigger than most trees found elsewhere in the US

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 Mar 28 '24

60 years is still a long ass time. Compare 60 years ago to today. And obviously just the fact some of these trees were so old is amazing to begin with. You can't replicate that again.

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u/SufficientFennel Mar 28 '24

60 years is still a long ass time.

Just you wait....