The redwoods on the wildlife mural two posts ago weren’t the only painted redwoods I saw during my Sequoia National Park trip. There’s a redwood mural on the far end of the Giant Forest Museum in the park.
The Giant Forest museum uses its space to teach visitors about the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). One can learn about the climatic conditions it thrives in, how tall it grow and how long the Big Trees live. There’s also a wall of what looks like painted Giant Sequoias with some Sequoia National Park history to go with them.
The redwood mural is a picture of the Giant Sequoias with their graceful long trunks, other vegetation that co-inhabit the slopes of the Sierra, animal life there, some rangers at work and visitors at this park on the western slopes of the southern Sierras.
It was nice to see this redwood mural also talk about the roots of these red giants. From a ranger at another redwood park, I’d learnt that the roots of the redwoods don’t go very deep. Instead, the roots of these tall and massive trees spread wide and interlock with each other.
I was amazed to hear that it was this underground network that supported all that height and volume that the Coast Redwoods and Giant Sequoias are known for.
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Gigantic murals Dee, and very well done.
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Oh yeah — very well done. I love it!
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There is so much to discover, I love these!
You have to see the Redwoods. They are amazing trees.
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…I’ve seen the redwood twice, what an experience. A fabulous mural.
I can never get enough of those tall trees. Every time I visit a redwood forest, I learn something amazing about them.
True, that’s a fabulous mural. 🙂
Have a great week, Tom.
I’ve never thought about the exhibits in science and nature museums as being murals, but of course that’s often what they are!
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I don’t see them as murals. But this one stood out with its oil-paint appearance. Only the tree in the middle looked different and might have been a cut out pasted to the mural.
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What an amazing mural… I remember visiting the Yosemite National Park and seeing some of the trees, the murals have depicted the forest very closely though it is a different forest but looks very similar
Such a well-done one, no? It’s the same species of Sequoia that you saw at Yosemite, Prasad.
Coming up — a couple of posts on Sequoia National Park that’s further south of Yosemite. Do come back to see it. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
Whoa! Love that tree. Would like to stand under it and get a picture clicked. 🙂 There’s something about national parks. They refresh you from within.
These trees are such natural wonders not just for their height and volume. But the way the roots of these trees connect and form a network underground, and they’re pretty fire resistant too. Their trunks are beautiful too. You’ll enjoy them.
I love national parks!
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Back in high school, we were taught about these trees and in college in Botany. It is really surprising to see how giant these trees can be…
Oh yeah! they’re huge and extremely tough too.
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