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Nelder grove of giant sequoias


Nelder Grove is a Giant sequoia grove located in the western Sierra Nevada within the Sierra National Forest, in Madera County, California.

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It was originally named the Fresno Grove when it was within a larger 19th-century Fresno County, before Madera County was established.

Yosemite nelder grove


GeographyEdit

The grove is a 1,540-acre (6.2 km2) tract containing over 100 mature Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees. It also contains a number of sequoia stumps, remaining from when the grove's ancient trees were logged in the late 1870s to 1890s, before being protected by its United States Forest Service acquisition in 1928.

A Sierra National Forest campground is located at the Nelder Grove.

Noteworthy treesEdit

Some of the trees and trails found in the grove that are worthy of special note are:

  • Bull Buck Tree: this tree reaches a height of 246 feet (75 m) and has a ground-level circumference of 100 feet (30 m) but only a volume of 27,383 cubic feet (775.4 m3), thus not among the top 40 giant sequoias.
  • Graveyard of the Giants: an area which contains a number of large sequoias killed by a wildfire, a fate rarely encountered due to the sequoia's protective bark;
  • Shadow of the Giants National Recreation Trail: a trail constructed in 1965 which was established as a National Recreation Trail in 1978;
  • Remnants of the area's logging days: including two restored cabins and replicas of cross-log and two-pole log chutes.
  • Nelder Tree: The largest tree in the grove at 34,993 cubic feet (990.9 m3); it is the 22nd largest giant sequoia in the world.
  • Old Grandad Tree: A tremendously rugged tree atop a hill, there is reason to believe this is a very old tree.
  • Old Forester Tree: This tree is the tallest in the Nelder Grove campground area (at 299 ft.). The tree is named after Walter Puhn, who is a former National Forest Supervisor.

    • HistoryEdit

    The area was logged extensively from 1878 until the mid-1890s by the Madera Flume and Trading Company. They logged mostly sugar pines, ponderosa pines, white firs, and incense-cedars, but they did cut down some of the sequoias as well.

    John MuirEdit

    The grove is named for John A. Nelder, who was called by John Muir the "Hermit of the Fresno Forest. Muir wrote about him and the area in 1878, and the description was later included in Chapter 9 of his book Our National Parks:

    References

    Nelder Grove Wikipedia
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