近20層樓高的千年紅杉樹

These are some of the world's largest trees that only grow on western slopes of mountain range running through California and ographer Michael Nichols spent two weeks capturing images of the 'President' - the world's second-biggest tree which is at least 3,200 years old in Sequoia National Park, deep in the southern region.

據英國每日郵報報道，在加利福尼亞州和內華達州山脈的西側生長着世界上最高的樹，攝影師Michael Nichols在國家紅杉公園南部地區花了兩個星期，用相機捕捉到了這棵距今至少3200年名爲“總統”的世界第二高巨型紅杉。

Sequoias only grow on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range which runs 400 miles through Nevada and California. Giant sequoias can reach 247-feet - the height of a 20-storey building.

這種樹木僅僅在內華達山脈（橫貫內華達州和加州四百英里的山脈）西側生長，該巨型紅杉高達247英尺，相當於一幢20層建築物那麼高。

The following is an excerpt from National Geographic magazine: 'It’s not quite the largest tree on Earth. It’s the second largest '.

據《國家地理雜誌》稱“這並不是世界最高的樹，僅位列第二。”

Scientist Steve Sillett of Humboldt State University and his colleagues has confirmed that the President ranks number two among all big ough its trunk isn’t quite so bulky. The tree holds nearly two billion leaves.

洪堡州立大學科學家史提夫·斯雷特和他的同事確認這棵紅杉確實是世界第二高的大樹。雖然它的樹幹直徑看起來沒有多麼大，但是卻承載了20億片樹葉。

Their giant size allows them to survive disasters which would wipe out many of their woodland competitors - they are unaffected by storms, resistant to forest fire and can live even after being struck by lightning.

巨大的尺寸使它們在風暴，森林大火、甚至雷擊等災難中優於其它森林中的競爭對手而倖存下來。

And the trees never stop growing even when they are hundreds of feet tall ,The trunk is constantly widening, while the upper limbs grow stronger even as the trees age.

這些樹雖然有幾百英尺高但它們並沒有停止生長,樹幹不斷變粗，隨着樹齡的增長，樹冠隨着時間也變得越來越強壯。