After more than seven decades of ownership, the Rouch family will sell their piece of the Sierra Nevada to Save the Redwoods League, a century-old conservation group that has long hankered after the property.
Skip Rouch patted the base of the copper-hued giant. “Dad’s tree,” he said. “Dad picked it out before he died.”
Within a week of returning from the war, Sonny started clearing a six-mile dirt road to the land, which is surroundedLogging crews cut down fir, sugar pine and cedar trees to supply the family’s lumber mill in Springville. They even felled more than two dozen giants, which were likely turned into shingles and fence posts since sequoia wood is too brittle to make good lumber.
“We never cut any sequoia trees down for houses. Why would we? That was one of the things that people wanted,” Sonny said decades later in a talk to the Tulare County Historical Society. Most of the groves are on federal or state land, including Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, the Sequoia National Forest and the Giant Sequoia National Monument — which abuts the grove. Of the 1,200 acres that remain in private hands, the Alder Creek parcel is by far the largest.Giant sequoias tower above other trees at Alder Creek Grove in June.
“They wanted more for the property than we thought was reasonable,” Sam Hodder, the conservation group's president, said of the Rouchs. “When you own the last of its kind in the world, it’s an interesting spot from which to negotiate.”
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