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Foreword

Parks vs Monuments

Acadia

Bryce Canyon

Carlsbad Caverns

Crater Lake

General Grant

Glacier

Grand Canyon

Grand Teton

Hawaii

Hot Springs

Lassen Volcanic

Mesa Verde

Mount McKinley

Mount Rainier

Platt

Rocky Mountain

Seqoia

Wind Cave

Yellowstone

Yosemite

Zion

Monuments





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Sequoia and General Grant


sequoia
FALLEN GIANT
This trunk measures 288 feet. Sequoia wood is almost indestructible except by fire. This tree may have been prostrate for many centuries.
Photograph by Lindley Eddy

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