Giants

A little fun fact about me, I am obsessed with red wood trees.
Fun facts about red woods:

• known as skyscrapers or giants.
• Sequoias and red woods actually are different, in terms of how they survive in climate. 
• Redwoods stand up to 378 feet tall, sequoias are 318 feet tall.
• Sequoias weigh around 2.7 million pounds.
• Redwoods live up to 2,000 years old and Sequoias live up to 3,000 years. 

Photo credit: Michael Nichols, National Geographic

"Fossil records have shown that relatives of today's coast redwoods thrived in the Jurassic Era 160 million years ago. And while the fantastic creatures of that age have long since disappeared, the redwoods continue to thrive, in the right environment." 

www.savetheredwoods.org

http://www.visitsequoia.com/redwoods-and-sequoias.aspx

 http://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/about-the-trees.htm

http://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/