Electrojake, I am particularly Impressed with Alice Lou's Biography. Quite a Social Climber Lady!

It's a bit semantics, but it would be interesting to know if these are the tallest and largest or just the tallest. Up until now, the largest by mass were considered the sequoias, Grant, Sherman, etc. and the tallest, the coast redwoods. At a certain height, though, the redwoods could overtake the sequoias as world's largest.

Good point, I was using (typically) imprecise language to describe the newly discovered Coast Redwood as the "largest" trees, they are the tallest.

I don't think the newly discovered Coast Redwood are going to exceed the volume of the largest Giant Sequoia.

The largest Coast Redwood in total volume as of a few years ago was the Del Norte Titan at 36,890 cubic feet. The largest Giant Sequoia is General Sherman at 55,040 cubic feet. I used Robert Van Pelt's "Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast" as a reference.
-moss