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3 Sierra sugar pines added to list of 6 biggest in world – Washington Post
Three trees in the Sierra Nevada have been added to the list of tallest sugar pines known to exist
The third, found in the Stanislaus National Forest, checks in sixth on the all-time list at 253 feet, 2 inches (77 meters).
The largest of the three, dubbed the Redonkulous tree, measures 10.5 feet (3 meters) in diameter 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) above the ground a universal measurement known as diameter breadth height.
Taylor, a longtime partner of the Sugar Pine Foundation in South Lake Tahoe, California, located and hiked to the growing behemoths based on satellite sensing data from the National…
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