earning it the nickname “Dead Giant Tunnel Tree,” but other entrances into Yosemite National Park started cutting into live trees. The living tunnel tree in the Mariposa Grove is still ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL ... Dickman points out tree after tree, killed by insects, thirst, or both. "Sugar pine, ponderosa pine, white fir, giant sequoia. All dead," he said. " ...

Trees have died in the tunneling process, such as Yosemite’s Wawona Tunnel ... Pioneer Cabin Tree still showed signs of life. Related: More than 100 million California trees dead due to drought ...

Hundreds of hazardous dead ponderosa and sugar pine trees ... The California Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia in Yosemite National Park's Mariposa Grove, on Tuesday, June 12, 2018.

Nor is that the OTHER Yosemite tunnel tree, the one in Tuolumne Grove—that one still stands, although it’s dead anyway. There’s also one in Sequoia National Park, though it fell over before ...

open image in gallery The 22-year-old was hiking on the Four Mile Trail leading towards Glacier Point (pictured) when the tree fell (NPS ... was found dead in Yosemite on September 14 after ...

There's also the fun California Tunnel Tree, which is the only living sequoia in Yosemite that features a human-made tunnel carved out the middle of the trunk. Visitors can admire the towering ...

“Yosemite National Park is aware of the litigation that was filed regarding the tree removal in the park ... conifers <20” diameter, standing dead trees, and removing dead and down trees ...