"It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk.
"And in case you wonder how they were felled:"
Read more: http://knuckledraggin.com/2015/05/the-fieldbrook-stump-humboldt-county-california/
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I think PBS did a special including this tree? I was in the Humboldt Redwood State Park and drove through the Avenue of the Giants on one of my vacation forays. I have some pretty cool pictures of me and my kids, standing next to, and inside hollows of the Redwoods. Those trees are amazing.
I hope the tree was DEAD? What a shame. Pretty amazing though.
The Fieldbrook redwood tree was alive at the time it was cut down. In fact, it's still alive: the roots survived and regrowth out of the roots has continued in the 120+ years since it was robbed of its glory. But it continues to live. Also, no this was not the PBS special tree, as the Fieldbrook stump is on private property, not a state park.
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