The Giant Sequoia National Monument is a

U.S. National Monument In the United States, a national monument is a protected area that can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the President of the United States or an act of Congress. National monuments prot ...

located in the southern Sierra Nevada in eastern central

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. It is administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the

Sequoia National Forest Sequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The U.S. National Forest is named for the majestic Giant Sequoia (''Sequoiadendron giganteum'') trees which populate 38 distinct groves within the boundari ...

and includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia (''Sequoiadendron giganteum'') groves that are located in the Sequoia National Forest, about half of the sequoia groves currently in existence, including one of the ten largest Giant Sequoias, the

Boole Tree The Boole Tree is a giant sequoia in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, Fresno County, California. The Boole Tree is the eighth tallest sequoia in the world and is the largest in terms of base circumference at 112 feet. It is estimated to be mo ...

, which is high with a base circumference of . The forest covers . The monument is in two sections. The northern section surrounds General Grant Grove and other parts of

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and is administered by the Hume Lake Ranger District. The southern section, which includes Long Meadow Grove, is directly south of

Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief ...

and is administered by the Western Divide Ranger District, surrounding the eastern half of the Tule River Indian Reservation. The Giant Sequoia National Monument was created by President

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in Proclamation 7295 on April 15th, 2000 and published as on April 25th.

Management

Presidential Proclamation 7295 required that a management plan be completed within three years. In January 2004, the Sequoia National Forest published and began implementation of the Giant Sequoia National Monument Management Plan, which provided for use by an international public as well as for the protection and restoration of 33 giant sequoia groves and their ecosystems. Subsequently, two lawsuits were brought challenging the plan. In October 2006, Federal District Court Judge

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found in favor of the plaintiffs and remanded the plan to the U.S. Forest Service "…so that a proper Monument Plan can be developed in accordance with the Presidential Proclamation,… and in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)…" In January 2008, the Sequoia National Forest published a notice of intent in the ''Federal Register'' that they intended to prepare an environmental impact statement and were beginning a year-long collaborative scoping process for development of a new Giant Sequoia National Monument Management Plan. only one location in the monument, the

Generals Highway The Generals Highway is a highway that connects State Route 180 and State Route 198 through Sequoia National Park, Sequoia National Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument, and Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California. As ...

, is listed on the

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, but the monument does have several hundred sites that are potentially eligible for the register.

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External links

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Sequoia National Forest: Photo Gallery
— one ''of several Giant Sequoia groves within the monument''
USFS: Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument homepage
* ttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/sequoia/recarea/?recid=79825 Trail of 100 Giants {{authority control Giant sequoia groves National Monuments in California Parks in Fresno County, California Parks in Kern County, California Parks in Tulare County, California Protected areas of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Sequoia National Forest

Giant Sequoia ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'' (giant sequoia; also known as giant redwood, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, California big tree, Wellingtonia or simply big treea nickname also used by John Muir) is the sole living species in the genus ''Sequoiade ...

Sequoiadendron ''Sequoiadendron'' is a genus of evergreen trees, with two species, only one of which survives to the present: * ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'', extant, commonly known as wellingtonia, giant redwood and giant sequoia, growing naturally in the Sierr ...

2000 establishments in California Protected areas established in 2000

Management

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