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Pioneer Cabin Tree

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238: 185: 31: 159: 1610: 150:. It was considered one of the U.S.'s most famous trees, and drew thousands of visitors annually. It was estimated to have been more than 1,000 years old, and measured 33 feet (10 m) in diameter; its exact age and height were not known. The tree was topped before 1859. It fell and shattered during a storm on January 8, 2017. 791:"Sierra redwoods (also known as Giant Sequoias) are the largest objects ever to have lived on Earth. The fossil record of the redwood family dates back 180 million years to the age of the dinosaurs, and individuals can live over 3,000 years", explains the California Department of Parks and Recreation. 208:
was encouraged, but this practice was prohibited in the 1930s. At first only pedestrians were allowed to pass through the tree. Later, for many years, automobiles drove through it as part of the "Big Trees Trail". It was one of several drive-through trees in California. Subsequently, only hikers were
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reports that the trees in the state park are estimated to be more than 1,000 years old. Sequoias can live for more than 3,000 years. The iconic tree was one of just a few tunneled-through sequoias in California. The most famous was the Wawona Tree, in Yosemite National Park; it fell during a winter
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The Pioneer Cabin Tree fell during a rain storm and flooding on January 8, 2017. It was the strongest storm to hit the area in over a decade. The flooding, combined with the shallow root system of giant sequoias, likely caused it to fall. A park volunteer reported that the tree had been weakening,
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At least one observer suggested that the tree fell victim to the profit motive and greed, not just a storm. It was one of several trees that were mutilated to promote tourism. California State Parks supervising ranger Tony Tealdi said in the modern day the hollowing out of a tree would not have
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In the early 1880s, a tunnel was cut through the compartments by a private land owner at the request of James Sperry, founder of the Murphys Hotel, so that tourists could pass through it. The tree was chosen in part because of the large forest fire scar. The Pioneer Cabin Tree emulated the tunnel
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Those who created this "tourist attraction" killed the tree slowly. ... We appear to be a nation of short-term thinkers, ... and people who take the long view seem to be in the minority. I wonder why humans can't simply see the beauty of nature as it exists. Rather, they need to "improve" it or
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becoming brittle and leaning to one side for several years, with only a single branch remaining alive. It had been weakened by the severe damage caused by the tunnel carved through its trunk. The tree shattered on impact with the ground due to the brittle wood of mature sequoias.
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After the fall of the tree the park trail closed for a cleanup operation. Some sections of the tree remained intact, but the park's preservation policy prevented them from being cut up, for example to determine the tree's exact age.
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The "Pioneers' Cabin" had a large burnt cavity, which this year has been so enlarged by workmen, that a stage could easily pass through it with enough of the tree left on each side to support it in health.
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Last weekend, the Pioneer Cabin Tree in California collapsed. It was one of a number of West Coast trees that had holes cut through them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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storm in 1969 at an estimated age of 2,100 years. The other remaining sequoia tunnels are dead or consist of logs on their side, the Forest Service says."
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was the second standing sequoia to be tunneled (the first, a dead tree, still stands in the Tuolumne Grove in Yosemite).
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An 1856 news article lists the height of the tree without its broken off top as 150 feet (46 m). In 1900, the
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In 1857 it was noted that the "top half" of the tree was broken off at about 150 feet, and that the tree was hollow.
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The "Pioneer's Cabin" is 150 feet high; where the top is broken off it has a small opening through it.
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The loss of the Pioneer Cabin Tree occasioned an encomium to other important trees that still remain.
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The Pioneer Cabin Tree got its name from its distinctively hollow trunk, partially burnt by
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image of the Pioneer Cabin Tree and Pluto's Chimney (left in the distance) (c. 1864–1874)
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image of the Pioneer Cabin Tree with people and horse passing through (c. 1867–1899)
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allowed to pass through the tree's tunnel as part of the North Grove Loop hiking trail.
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This was one of several trees that were hollowed out for the amusement of tourists.
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Historical giant sequoia tunnel tree in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California
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An Architectural Guidebook to the National Parks: California, Oregon, Washington
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so named from the cabin like chamber and chimney its hollow trunk exhibits...
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The tree was "barely alive" due to the hole punched through it in the 1880s.
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Pioneer Cabin Tree, in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, fell in 2017.
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Carol Kramer; Calaveras Big Trees Association (September 6, 2010).
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Two walk-through giant sequoia tunnel trees still stand:
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Since the 1880s and for more than 50 years, visitor
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Photo of the tree from 2006. Tree has a tunnel through center of trunk. There is a marked path for people to walk through it.
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
38°16′48.6″N 120°18′11.3″W / 38.280167°N 120.303139°W / 38.280167; -120.303139
giant sequoia
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
California

lightning strikes
forest fire
log cabin

stereoscope
Wawona Tree
graffiti

stereoscope
giant sequoia
Wawona Tree
Mariposa Grove
Yosemite National Park
Mariposa Grove
Yosemite National Park
Tuolumne Grove
Yosemite National Park
Hercules Tree
Mountain Home State Forest
Tharp's Log
Sequoia National Park
Giant Forest

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