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Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. A awe-inspiring giant Sequoia trees are among the largest living things on earth,

but the opportunity to experience them is rare.

Approximately 75 groves exist, and only along the southern Sierra's western slope on moist sites

between about 5,000 and 7,000 feet in elevation. Giant forest, one of the largest

groves, was saved from logging by the establishment of the Sequoia National Park in 1890, but National Park status did not fully

protect the big trees.

I'm Jason Epperson and on this episode, The Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park.

The road that brought visitors to Giant Forest brought along with it, camping, cabins,

commercial development, and congestion. The impacts of this development both to the Giant development and

congestion both to the giant Sequoia ecosystem and to the quality of visitor experience

conflicted with the National Park Service mandate to conserve park resources and values and leave them

unimpaired for the enjoyment of present and future generations.

Here's Abigail Trebue. You're going to do. commercial recreational use of giant forest began in 1899 with the construction of a tent camp that was reached by a Pac-Mule train.

In 1903, a proper road was completed and the tent camp grew accordingly.

The end of the road at Round Meadow became the location for a ramshackle collection of semi-permanent

summer camps, along with administrative and concessionaire buildings.

In suing campaigns to draw people to the national parks and to see the big trees in particular

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