SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK
Fulbright Scholar’s Description
A bird which could outrun a horse, and a species of chipmunk whose heart-beat varied from 600 beats a minute to two or three during hibernation, were among the more unusual animals found in California, described by Mr J. Kline in an address to the Tin Hat Club.
Mr Kline, a Fulbright Scholar from California, has been almost 12 months in New Zealand as an exchange teacher. For the last 12 years he has spent his vacation as a warden in the Sequoia National Park, California. Mr Kline illustrated his talk with coloured slides showing the giant redwood forest. He said that one tree known as General Sherman, was 36 feet in diameter, with a girth of 101 feet. As long as those trees stood straight thev lived for thousands of years, but once they grew out of alignment, their tremendous weight toppled them over.
Mr Kline said he was amazed at the similarity between King’s Canyon in California and Milford Sound.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29262, 21 July 1960, Page 9
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168SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29262, 21 July 1960, Page 9
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