Thanks to the actions of one woman, it's now reduced to a stump. ... It was considered the largest and oldest bald cypress tree in the world, standing at around 120 feet tall.

Pacific Grove >> If all goes as planned, one of Pacific Grove’s most scenic and popular spots will soon be home to a handmade wooden sculpture transformed out of two Cypress tree stumps. That ...

That’s thanks to the three artists working on the wood sculpture of the whales, which has been carved out of the two cypress tree stumps in the city’s oceanside park.

The trees were planted on city property nearly two decades ago. The stumps, known in Louisiana as cypress knees, kept popping up all over the yard. It eventually got so bad, some of them were ...

A closeup of a cypress tree branch. "Tree rings are used in ecological studies to assess the environment to which the trees were exposed — including weather, fire and insect pests," said one expert.

Before this period, bald cypress trees in the region commonly lived for more than 470 years. However, after 500 A.D., their average lifespan declined sharply to just 186 years.