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3 Sierra sugar pines added to list of 6 largest in the world Published File Photo. Scenery of Sugar Pine Woods. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A big tree hunter who has been charting some of the largest trees in the West for more than a decade has added three in the Sierra Nevada to the list of tallest sugar pines known to exist in the world. Michael W. Taylor recently documented two in the Tahoe National Forest west of Lake Tahoe nearly as tall as the length of a football field. At 267 feet, 6 inches and 267 feet, 1.8 inches, they are the second and third tallest sugar pines ever recorded, the Tahoe Daily Tribune reported. ....
3 Tahoe-area sugar pines among tallest of their kind in the world Reno-Gazette-Journal 1/31/2021 Reno Gazette Journal SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. A big tree hunter who has been charting some of the largest trees in the West for more than a decade has added three in the Sierra Nevada to the list of tallest sugar pines known to exist in the world. Michael W. Taylor recently documented two in the Tahoe National Forest west of Lake Tahoe nearly as tall as the length of a football field. At 267 feet, 6 inches and 267 feet, 1.8 inches, they are the second and third tallest sugar pines ever recorded, the Tahoe Daily Tribune reported. ....
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Taylor said finding tall trees is like a treasure hunt. Kennedy standing under the Redonkulous tree. The Tioga Tower compared to other tall sugar pines, including the Whelan tree. Taylor looking up at the Whelan tree. Muir sitting below the Whelan tree. Taylor measuring the rings on the Whelan tree after being cut down in 2014. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. For more than a decade, big tree hunter Michael Taylor has been bagging big tree finds. This past October, he added the second, third and sixth tallest known sugar pines to his list of finds. The second and third tallest Sugar Pines are located in Tahoe National Forest and measure at 267.5 ft and 267.15 ft. The 267.15 foot tree, dubbed the “Redonkulous” tree, measures at 10.5 feet in diameter at the breast height, which is 4.5 feet up from the ground. ....