Nelder Grove
Nelder Grove is a Giant sequoia grove located in the western Sierra Nevada within the Sierra National Forest, in Madera County, California.
It was originally named the Fresno Grove when it was within a larger 19th-century Fresno County, before Madera County was established.
The grove is a 1,540-acre (6.2 km2) tract containing over 100 mature Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees. It also contains a number of sequoia stumps, remaining from when the grove's ancient trees were logged in the late 1870s to 1890s, before being protected by its United States Forest Service acquisition in 1928.
A Sierra National Forest campground is located at the Nelder Grove.
Some of the trees and trails found in the grove that are worthy of special note are:
The area was logged extensively from 1878 until the mid-1890s by the Madera Flume and Trading Company. They logged mostly sugar pines, ponderosa pines, white firs, and incense-cedars, but they did cut down some of the sequoias as well.
The grove is named for John A. Nelder, who was called by John Muir the "Hermit of the Fresno Forest. Muir wrote about him and the area in 1878, and the description was later included in Chapter 9 of his book Our National Parks:
Coordinates: 37°26′24″N 119°35′16″W / 37.4399402°N 119.5876482°W
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