ocr: 12 Giant 1 Sequoia THOUGH A SEQUOIA SEED WEIGHS LESS THAN 1/3000 of an ounce, the tree that develops from it may eventually weigh sixty-five billion times as much. This is a piece of the largest life form on Earth, and one of the longest lived. The giant sequoia tree Bequoradendron giganteum) from which this slice comes survived for over thirteen hundred years in a range of moun- tains now called the Sierra Nevada in California. Known as the Mark t Twain Tree, it grew in the Kings River Grove, now part of Kings Canyon National Park. Two men worked with axes for thirteen days to fell it 16 3XX9 ...
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