James Balog went on a six year quest to photograph North America's largest, oldest, and strongest trees. What he found were sculpturally elegant trees that have survived by sheer hardiness or luck. For Balog, these images were the closest he could come to reassembling the continent's long-gone primeval forests. "Across the globe, the planet's original tree cover has been so significantly altered or annihilated that we no longer remember what the world used to look like," he says.
Redbud, Maggie Valley, North Carolina - 369 feet high, twice the size of the Statue of Liberty.
“Tanglewood” Eastern White Pine, Lenox, Massachusetts - This tree is believed to have germinated around 1820 when Massachusetts was at its point of maximum deforestation.
"Stagg," Sequoia in Alder Creek Grove. it is the fifth largest tree in the world.
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