Converse Basin Grove gives us a glimpse of a time when Manifest Destiny was the slogan of the day. The ax was king, and engineering feats in the mountains included lumber mills, water flumes, steam locomotives, and unrivaled will power. This grove is the largest contiguous grove in the world and contains Boole Tree, the largest sequoia on National Forest System land. This grove offers unique opportunities to study how rapidly the young sequoias grow. Unlike most of the planet’s other species, sequoias reproduce prolifically and continue to grow rapidly well into old age. Converse Basin also offers the importance of studying historic weather patterns created from the timelines on tree rings located on the stumps.

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