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   ocr: Sequoia Then mountains like the Sierra Nevada rose, and the climate in most regions became too cold for the trees. By the onset of the Ice Ages, approximately one million years ago, they had vanished from most of the Northern Hemisphere. Today the only sequoia species left are the giant sequoia of the Sierra Nevada in central California and the very different redwood along the coast of northern California and southern Oregon. Together with a few Asian relatives and the baldcypresses of North America, they are all that remain of the once much larger and more 46