making it the world's largest tree by volume. No one has ever climbed the 2,200-year-old tree that was before this year. Researchers led by Anthony Ambrose, executive director of the Ancient ...

“I always remember it being the biggest sugar pine I ever found,” says ... to try to save the tree, it succumbed to a bark beetle infestation, and was cut down in 2014. At the time, it had ...