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Seedlings & Time. Smoke boiled 10,000 ft. into the sky; the fire raced with the wind through a deep-timbered basin towards the Boole sequoia (world's third largest) and towards the steep gorges of the Kings Canyon, as deep in places as the Grand Canyon. "If it jumps down," said Geil, "we're in trouble. That's mankiller country. If we don't catch her here, there's no stopping her. She could go for miles on both sides of the river...
...This Is a Classic." At noon one day early this month, a Sequoia National Forest lookout sighted smoke from the nearby McGee ranch. At 6 p.m., despite fire crews and bulldozers, the McGee fire topped a ridge and ran wild. Normally, air conditions at nightfall and along ridge lines slow down forest fires, but that evening hungry breezes sucked flames over the crest and down through the forest. Hundreds of spot-blazes flared up behind the fire crews, who pulled back fast. Thereafter, the fire and the fight raged for days...
Last week's rain wet down much of California, but at week's end fire still crackled in the deep combustible duff of the forest floor. In the Sequoia and other blackened forests, the Forest Service was making brisk plans to replant. Said Fire Boss Geil, his face drawn and his eyes hooded with fatigue: "We'll plant seedlings, and we'll prune them, and in 70 or 80 years we'll have the timber back. It'll take a lot of work. Tomorrow we start...
...General Sherman sequoia, reputed to be "the oldest living thing on earth" (some 3,500 years) and largest of all trees, is 272 ft. tall and 101 ft. in circumference, weighs 2,150 tons (155 tons for the foliage alone) and contains 600,000 board feet of lumber-enough to build a whole town...
...although the Middies received the Rowe Cup from Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson on his yacht, the Sequoia, the Crimson varsity, with four men who had been in the boat for only ten days, received the most favorable notice. Harvard finished second in the Rowe Cup points with 12, (Navy had 18), on the strength of its two seconds and a third. Cornell was third with 11 points...