The Mark Twain tree (giant sequoia)🌍

The Mark Twain tree (giant sequoia)🌍

The Mark Twain tree is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in a grove of large stumps in Kingsx Canyon National Park, reaching 300 feet (91 m) in height before it was cut down in 1891.

The process of cutting down the tree took 13 days and was carried out by loggers Bill Mills and S.D. Phips with the assistance of Barney and John Luke. Later sections of the tree trunk were sent to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the British Museum in London.

The stump remains in the grove of the Big Stump and is known as the "Big Stump" or "Mark Twain Stump".

In the first photo: Fifty men standing on a massive stump of a Mark Twain Tree.

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[GraceZaalman-vmdf]

Why they chopped down that beautifull strong tree?

[penumbrahey]

As humans, as a whole, all we know is how to consume, and hardly replace. Sequoia trees can only grow in specific climates. We need to bring them back!!

[極楽鳥-mm]

So proud of a short lived decimation of ancient Giants, only takes a day to destroy one sanctuary tree, what took thousands of years to establish.. truly horrifying the existential dismissal & disrespect of the heartless, mindless, poor greedy colonists.. wasn't yours to take

[nathansharma]

Back then it was a proud masculine moment to find the biggest oldest tree and chop it down. Like we conquered something or achieved something majestic.

Some people still have that drive. Its why many wealthy elites pay big dollars to shoot and hunt large rare animals.

Thankfully things are somewhat different today.

Men are wiser because we have learnt but in their place has come large corporations whose only wisdom comes from profits.

[songstra]

They were illiterate and ignorant back then. Nothing has changed. The devastation to old growth forests is disgusting.

[BVance]

How many 1000’s of years did it take to get this big ? and what is the LARGEST tree on west coast OLD GROWTH

[Meldstor]

I am a person who, oddly enough, is for humanity and progress, man is in fact the strongest and most powerful creature on the planet and the galaxy, but I am against cutting down these trees, they are beautiful and majestic creatures that are several thousand years old, the same with animals, if evolution has given us intelligence, we must use it and not only for our own benefit. Remember how many were destroyed due to the fault of man, and it will not stop until people find a way to overcome their instincts of greed, power, and cruelty. In any case, in the future people will look at us as wild animals. People! Be kinder and smarter than those animals that lived 100-200 years ago!

[gdibenedetto]

It's so sad to me that they look so proud.

[nexusn]

This is so sad to see. Was just up at the Sequoias. They chopped down an ancient tree 😔

[hydrogenneon]

Among all the trees these idiots had to cut down this tree.

[moisesdaibelapereira]

It's a world 🌎🌍 heritage. Amazing trees 😊

[islamdo]

So sad to think those giants used to be there
Hope the rest and the new generation of sequoia thrives

[aaroneaton]

It's sad that they cut down these big beautiful beauties that have been standing for hundreds of years

[beyondnature]

Port of Ivory Dinuba Ivory Pine Co. 1949 #outdoorsbeyondnature1980

[ivanguthrie]

Most of the wood harvested back then was used to make ash for fertilizer that fed people. Now we have better ways of getting potassium.

[GabrielRodrigues-wi]

Se isso e verdade uma árvore dessa merecia respeito e reverência

[celanimusic]

they cut that down for a museum...
some sad living beeings, don't even know whag they are. born as humans act like dust in the wind

[TakisXtraHotEpical]

Lepidedodrion tree:what a i am a roach?

[newtwn]

Sorry I lie brothers, it's was just a small job $5 a hour. 😂😂😂

[jorgeantoniomamanichora]

En lugar de explotar la Sequoia❎❎❎❎🌳🌲 y otras especies de árboles, se debe plantar más árboles ➕🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳 para que incrementar la cantidad de Oxígeno 🌬️🌬️( O2 )y Ozono ( O3).