| Botany enthusiasts explore the South Grove of giant sequoias (Sierra redwood) at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, Calaveras County, California, western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The South Grove at Calaveras Big Trees makes an excellent side trip when visiting the High Sierra Nevada fossil plants in the upper Miocene Disaster Peak Formation. By the way, many of those other conifers growing alongside the giant sequoia in the photograph are amazingly impressive specimens in their own right. |