Three tallest trees in the woild

[DesertFox]

Researchers have discovered three trees in a northern California forest they believe are taller than a nearby redwood listed as the world's tallest tree, a U.S. forestry official said on Thursday.

Researchers who trekked this summer through dense forests near Eureka, California found three coast redwoods taller than the record-setting 370-foot(113-metre)-tall Stratosphere Giant, according to initial measurements, said Rick Nolan, acting superintendent of Redwood National and State Parks.

The tallest of the three trees measuring 378.1 feet (115.2 meters) has been named Hyperion. Additional measurements will be taken to confirm that height, which would make Hyperion the world's tallest tree, Nolan said

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[DesertFox]

The tallest tree should be named Wilt.

[BuckeyeMike]

The dumbest tree? Al Gore...of course....but he's really only a stump......
.....................yeah, that's it...he's as dumb as a stump!

[DeclinetoState]

If they want to find out which is the tallest tree, they should cut them down and measure them.

:D

Just kidding. :)

[Riverboat]

If they want to find out which is the tallest tree, they should cut them down and measure them.Sssh! Not so loud! You don't want this woman to swoop in and live in them for the next few months.

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[Phil Osophical]

What? Illegal alien vandals haven't cut them down yet like they did the thousand year-old pipe cacti at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument?

[DesertFox]

From what I've read, them redwoods are useless for anything but contemplating. The wood is brittle and fractures when you put a nail in it, so it's no good for building. It's fireproof, though, so if you built a cabin out of one (or one-half, or one-tenth) of these monsters and used mud to chink it, you wouldn't have to worry about fire hazards.

[UnkHiram]

WHen I was a small kid my sister used to tell me that they cut down the redwoods and would grind each one into a SINGLE toothpick. Really upset me at the time. Hey now, I was 7 lets not get carried away.

[DesertFox]

One helluva toothpick.

[DeclinetoState]

Sssh! Not so loud! You don't want this woman to swoop in and live in them for the next few months.

http://www.keylight.org/images/shainbaum/julia_butterfly_hill_1.jpgTalk about a "woody."

[Timberwolf]

If they want to find out which is the tallest tree, they should cut them down and measure them.

:D

Just kidding. :)
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Bustin' a gut over here!! I don't care who ya are...that there's funny stuff!! LOL

[Patriot Heart]

The wood isn't that bad, my folks had a backyard fence 6 ft tall built out of redwood, they got it because it resists rot. Held up beautifully.
I want to see those big redwoods. That is on my to-do list next summer when the treatments are all over.

[Faithful_Servant]

This reminds reminds me of a little piece of eco-nut activity down in S. Oregon. One of the ten tallest redwoods in the world was sick and dying. A local logger offered to drop the tree, asking only to be allowed to salvage the lumber from the tree. Felling a R-Wood this big is not a simple process. The wood is brittle and has a tendency to shatter on impact. As a result a "bed" needs to be made of smaller trees, brush, slash, etc. for the tree to land on. In addition, once it's on the ground you have to cut through the slash pile pile you just created to get to the tree. In commercial operations, they drop multiple trees onto one bed, so the cost gets spread out, but with a one tree job, the lumber would barely covre the costs involved. The eco-nuts managed to get the whole operation stopped and the tree was left alone. A couple of years later, a big windstorm blew through and the tree was blown down. On the way down it damaged 3 big trees so badly that they became blatant safety hazards and had to be dropped. ALL of the lumber from ALL of these trees is currently lying in the ground, rotting away.

This is why eco-nuts need to spend 10 years logging before they are allowed to have an opinion on how to manage a forest.