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Climbing Earth's Second-Largest Tree

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The December issue of National Geographic features a natural wonder familiar to Californians: the President, one of the oldest giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park. It's the second-largest tree on Earth, according to Steve Sillett of Humboldt State University. He climbed it to find out.

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