This incredible longevity places it among the oldest known living ... in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, home to five of the ten largest trees in the world by volume.

The world's oldest trees were growing when the Great ... The most accurate estimates of old sequoia trees often come primarily from trees that have been cut down or fell due to natural causes ...

Scientists estimate that about 20 percent of the trees—many of them the biggest, oldest trees ... the General Grant giant sequoia, the second largest tree in the world, about 30 miles north ...

(SOUNDBITE OF DRONE) DEPENBROCK: It's here to detect signs of stress in General Sherman, the world's largest tree. Clay Jordan is the superintendent of Sequoia National Park. CLAY JORDAN ...

What’s captured people’s attention about the Washburn Fire raging in Yosemite National Park isn’t just its size or scope, but the fact that it threatens a giant sequoia ... oldest tree in ...

This cross section of a sequoia in Yosemite National Park ... this sacred fig has been enshrined as “oldest historical tree in the world.” A twisted Huon pine grows on the edge of the Gordon ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK — Roughly around ... It’s not the tallest or oldest tree in the world today, but it’s the largest when measured by volume, at 52,000 cubic feet. The one-time sapling ...

Still, it is much younger than the world’s oldest living trees ... wildfires have damaged an “unprecedented” number of trees in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, according to NPS.

(SOUNDBITE OF DRONE) DEPENBROCK: It's here to detect signs of stress in General Sherman, the world's largest tree. Clay Jordan is the superintendent of Sequoia National Park. CLAY JORDAN ...

but the fact that it threatens a giant Sequoia with a name, Grizzly Giant, and an extreme age: It’s almost 3,000 years old. The oldest trees have scientific as well as sentimental value.