Shutterstock Photo Trees are huge. It is no surprise to find a tall tree standing in a forest or a park. Especially in a ...

calling National Park Service or State Parks officials to let them know when flames are approaching a notable specimen. “It’s usually the finest forest left, where these big trees grow,” he ...

Under Captain Charles Young, the first black man to be put in charge of a national park, soldiers built the first trail to Mount Whitney and erected protective fences around the big trees.