Lincoln (tree)

Lincoln features an irregular base with prominent burn scars on its northern, southern, and western faces.

The top of Lincoln appears bleached with many large branches pointing outward.

Wendell Flint, in his book To Find The Biggest Tree, Sequoia Natural History Association (2002) stated that the Lincoln Tree has a volume of 44,471 cubic feet (1,259.3 m3).

[1] Wendell Flint was somewhat critical of the earlier measurements and he stated that he thought that it was appropriate to exclude a portion of the irregular base of the tree from his volume calculations, which in addition to some extrapolation differences from the earlier measurements, explains the smaller volume of 44,471 cubic feet (1,259.3 m3) that he obtained compared to the earlier figure.

[2] Although he chose to exclude it, Flint stated that the excluded portion of the base could just as easily be included in the calculations, presumably leading to the alternative volume of 51,000 cubic feet (1,400 m3)[3] The Lincoln Tree has a maximum base diameter of 36.4 feet.