It’s another victory for “General Sherman,” 160 years after the Civil War. A fire-resistant aluminum wrap saved the giant sequoia named after Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman from a raging wildfire in southeastern California. The world’s largest tree measured by volume is 275 feet tall and over 36 feet in diameter at the base. Sixty feet higher, the stately […]

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