Calaveras

Augering holes to fell the Discovery Tree, the first really big sequoia ever found, in 1852 at the Calaveras North Grove [from Tree Size Determination].

photograph

A grove of giant Port Orford cedars (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), reproduced from a 1911 forestry magazine (13).
Topics

Alphabetical Index of All Taxa On This Website

Synonym Index

Database Field Descriptions

A Rationale for the Gymnosperm Database

Recent Notes on the Database (updated quite sporadically)

Online Interview with Mary Townsend, editor of Amazing Trees, a webzine

Gymnosperms of Alta California

Gymnosperms of Australia & New Zealand

Gymnosperms of New Caledonia

Gymnosperms of Sichuan

Search Hints

Tree Age Determination, and Roster of the Ancients

Tree Size Determination, and A Tale of Big Tree Hunting In California

Paleobotany of Australia and New Zealand Conifers

Podocarp forests of south-west New Zealand


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/~earlecj/topics/index.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 5-May-1999

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