Description
Sequoia Natural History Association, Three Rivers, California, Published 1986. Wraps, 16 pp (unpaginated); 23 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a map.
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In Very Good condition. Black pictorial wraps with light bumping to edges and corners, mild shelf and edge wear, and some color loss along edges. Staple bound; binding tight. Interior clean and unmarked. An authoritative short history of the Kaweah Colony and the origins of Sequoia National Park, written by William C. Tweed, the longtime National Park Service historian and chief naturalist of Sequoia and Kings Canyon, and published by the park's own interpretive association. It recounts the utopian socialist cooperative that filed timber claims along the Kaweah River in 1885, built an eighteen-mile wagon road to the Giant Forest by hand, and renamed the General Sherman sequoia the "Karl Marx Tree," only to be displaced when Congress created Sequoia National Park in 1890, the nation's second national park and among the first established to protect a living thing. Illustrated with historical photographs and a map of the park and the colony's road. A timely account, as the giant sequoias it helped save have drawn national attention following the wildfires of 2020 and 2021, which killed an estimated one in seven of the largest trees and led crews to wrap the base of the General Sherman in protective foil.