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Some tourists drive through the Tunnel Tree in Sequoia National Park

California

1937

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Iconic Sequoia 'Tunnel Tree' Brought Down By California Storm

The Pioneer Cabin tree in Calaveras Big Trees State Park was one of California's few remaining tunneled-through sequoias. It was hollowed out more than 130 years ago.

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“Pioneer’s Cabin”

Historical Trees - California Series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History, ca. 1897 - ca. 1980. Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2008

California’s “Pioneer Cabin” tree, which came down in a storm this past weekend. (H/T to @californiastatelibrary)

Photos of more Historical California Trees from the Forest Service in the @usnatarchives‘ online Catalog.

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The Death of the Tunnel Tree | The New Yorker

Photo: California State Parks / AFP / Getty

In death, it was more. The A section of the Times, a paper not traditionally much concerned with California flora, gave the tree more than ten inches of space. The Los Angeles Times called it “iconic.” I watched the coverage with the media-age awkwardness of someone trying to feel the touch of death from a great distance. No one knew quite what to say, it seemed, and, although we all felt some vague measure of loss, it was unclear what to think about a life that had lasted longer than all memory. In the way of human grief, I want, instead of honoring the tree directly, to conjure up the world in which it was a monument for me.

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Posing with the 1952 Buick Special under the Tunnel Tree.

Sequoia National Park

1953

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1962 Tunnel Tree

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Iconic California Tunnel Tree Toppled During Powerful Storm

The Pioneer Cabin Tree may have been more than 1,000 years old. "The storm was just too much for it."

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Iconic California Tunnel Tree Toppled During Powerful Storm

Iconic California Tunnel Tree Toppled During Powerful Storm

  An iconic giant sequoia tree in California’s Sierra Nevada that was hollowed out for cars to drive through was toppled by a powerful winter storm slamming the state.

The Pioneer Cabin Tree, which may have been more than 1,000 years old, stood in California’s Calaveras County and was a popular attraction at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, where it was known by many as simply the “tunnel tree.”

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