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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 ...

No place will be more impacted by the project than the tiny town of Hood, in Sacramento County. It will be ground-zero in the effort to build the tunnel, and with fewer than 300 people, they don't ...