Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pioneer Cabin Tree" in English language version.
[The Cabin Tree is] so named from the cabin like chamber and chimney its hollow trunk exhibits...
The "Pioneer's Cabin" is 150 feet high; where the top is broken off it has a small opening through it.(subscription required)
The tree was "barely alive" due to the hole punched through it in the 1880s.
Last weekend, the Pioneer Cabin Tree in California collapsed. It was one of a number of West Coast trees that had holes cut through them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Those who created this "tourist attraction" killed the tree slowly. ... We appear to be a nation of short-term thinkers, ... and people who take the long view seem to be in the minority. I wonder why humans can't simply see the beauty of nature as it exists. Rather, they need to "improve" it or "make it into a profit center" Why can't a millennium-old tree just be valued because it exists?
[The Wawona Tree] was the second standing sequoia to be tunneled (the first, a dead tree, still stands in the Tuolumne Grove in Yosemite).
"Sierra redwoods (also known as Giant Sequoias) are the largest objects ever to have lived on Earth. The fossil record of the redwood family dates back 180 million years to the age of the dinosaurs, and individuals can live over 3,000 years", explains the California Department of Parks and Recreation.
The "Pioneers' Cabin" had a large burnt cavity, which this year has been so enlarged by workmen, that a stage could easily pass through it with enough of the tree left on each side to support it in health.
