How many houses would the General Sherman Tree build?
How many houses would the General Sherman Tree build? The National Park Service estimates that the General would yield 630,000 board feet of lumber. That's enough, they say, “to build 120 average-sized houses. In fact, a single giant sequoia may contain more wood than is found on several acres of some of the finest virgin timberland in the Pacific Northwest.
Is General Sherman still growing?
The General Sherman Tree has a circumference of 103 feet and soars 275 feet into the blue Sierra sky—and it's still growing. Every year it adds enough wood to make another 60-foot-tall tree.
How much redwood forest is left?
Visit our restoration webpages to learn more about this exciting work. How many acres of old-growth forest are left? Fewer than 120,000 acres, or 5 percent, of the original redwood forest remains today.