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This image is a detail of the root structure of the uprooted Tunnel Tree. There is an entire landscape in the roots of uprooted sequoias. Colors, shadows, ridges and flat areas all join together to make for an abstract landscape as if from 30,000 feet above looking down.

In Grants Grove in Kings Canyon National Park a giant sequoia fell leaving a hollowed log with room enough for a grown man to walk through without bending down. At the far end the root system of this fallen tree survives in such detail as to make one wonder why the tree lost its balance and fell in the forest so many years ago. The browns, greens and grays of the root system represents both dead wood and growing organisms, mainly lichen, finding a home among the ancient roots.

Giant sequoias can live for over 3,000 years, outlasting all of their mixed conifer forest neighbors. What is it about giant sequoias that allows them to persist through millennia? Surprisingly, a major factor in in the longevit...

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