Super Trees: Climbing a Giant Sequoia | Nat Geo Live 

Anonymoose well, 95% of Redwood trees were cut down during steam engine times, human beings were and are nearsighted, we can not think and act with long term view. However we are not doomed, there are few people are with long term vision

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Some people will kill for a dollar, some might as well pray to that dollar.

yeah, all those clearcut trees will take civilizations to grow back

So you compare the historic needs to modern needs. Maybe that why you'll never understand.

Greed, profit!

They're definitely worth going to see. I went to see the giant Sequoias last summer at National Sequoia Park and this month I'm going to go see the Redwoods that are even taller in Northern California.

They are absolutely beautiful.

First of all what would tweakers be doing cutting a tree down, ever? Secondly, there's nothing wrong with harvesting material for resources. Just like all the comments on videos like this you take for granted the need for survival, for the tree, and for people. Also, that username.

Dusk Legend Your username suggest you don't live in consensual reality and have a high opinion of yourself. no wonder you are ok with these treasures being used to make toothpicks for sale to enrich some MNC who doesn't need any more money. Fuck it why not just dump all toxic byproducts into our national parks and forests... Fuck nature, we are MAN.

FistForFascistFaces No, I made this as an xbox username when I was 13, and somehow, it still sounds less edgy than your anarchy alliteration nonsense. But back to the point, industry *is* our nature, you cannot pretend for even a moment that we're still a part of nature as we know it, we are contained in it, at its mercy, but we live, work, and take from nature, separate from nature. Basically what you sarcastically said at the end, we're not nature - we're man.

Dusk Legend I acknowledge that your comment was made two years ago, but when it comes to giant sequoia, of the 30 million trees that were cut down during the early 1900s, only 1/5 of the trees were usable as resources. The trees are so massive, that they basically explode into splinters when they hit the ground, making the lumber, weak and useless. After millions of trees were cut down and rendered useless, they discovered that cutting the trees into parts, and lowering the sections piece by piece through an intensive cable system was the only way to do it. This means that California lost around 24,000,000 giant sequoia needlessly. There are areas that were once thick and lush forests that have been reduced to barren wastelands, because there were no regulations or restrictions on logging companies back then. The damage done will take literally thousands of years to undo. Now, thanks to their idiocy and avarice, there are restrictions and regulations that are so extreme that nothing is getting cut down, encouraging the spread of diseases, massive wildfires, and overwhelming insect infestations that have taken another 30 million normal trees from our forests. Luckily, Sequoia have natural protection against these things. The only things they have to fear are gravity and mankind.

@@DuskLegend you can cut down trees that aren't ancient and or rare and wild

These people are insane!! Thank God. That is beautiful

hello my dear friend ! I think its winter ?

Wow! That was impressive ;-)

Omg, I had forgotten about this

Alexander Poku So BEAUTIFUL!

More incredible is the thought of the CREATOR of all things including this magnificent tree.

What? Nature spirits? That's nonsense. Stop worshiping creation. There are no nature spirits. God created all things. Turn away from this idolatry and worship only him.

@@juanjohn-charles3538 I hope this is sarcasm or, better yet, satire. You're speaking nonsense.

I am checking your book. I am in love with Trees. I feel their presence. Meditation.

We already do!

Only touch the fallen ones.

I think one could argue that the reef is a collection of many different lifeforms.

If . . . I discovered THAT secret, I would tell ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, most especially Rush Limbaugh!

THIS . . . was only an INCIDENTAL inspiration for "Avatar". Sequoias sorely deserve accolades and tributes far, far better than this!!

Then, let's EXCEED those "cm", okay, folks??

K how do u gt tht thru to ppl today? that thy r sacred trees not to be felled.

And what's more, "Mike", these men are having a VERY special and TREASURED experience, with their (and my) "big red friends".

Because they don't like America for some reason invalid or valid.

Monte Town please stop.

Then you'll never be president.

If someone learns THAT secret, then Rush Limbaugh will pay someone to cut it down!!

Because that's what Rush Limbaugh wants!

tolowamaidu Most of the giant sequoias were actually saved: something like 2/3rds of the old growth sequoias are still around. But it's true that 96% of the old growth coastal redwoods were cut down.

Thanks a bunch, "Ping", for setting "Tolo" straight; way too many folks insist on getting their facts dagblasted WRONG!!