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“Village Sentinel” is the largest live oak (Quercus virginiana) known to exist, scoring 558 total points on American Forest’s National Register of Champion Trees. It’s trunk circumference is 440-inches, Height-78-feet, Crown Spread-161-feet.

The tree has the most perfectly shaped crown of any of the champion live oaks in North America.

Village Sentinel is also awe-inspiring, and for me offers a glimmer of hope for our future.

Large-diameter trees make up about half of the mature forest biomass in the world. The amount of carbon that forests can sequester depends mostly on the abundance of large trees.

Conserving large trees is important in addressing climate change and protecting the incomparable benefits that trees and forests provide.