This is about trees and NOT taxes.  If you're here to learn about taxes, sorry...

Redwoods and sequoias are coastal trees and breathe in moisture thru their leaves to sustain tree hydration.  They're NOT native in the inland, where humidity is low between storms.  The hydration for the inland redwoods would depend on their ability to suck water from the ground.  Thus, those gigantic ones would break off from the top as their trunks become brittle for being dehydrated.  Of course, unlike us homo-sapiens, tree dehydration does NOT happen overnight.  When the trunks are weak, the tops could break off, like the naughty 1/3 from my client's neighbor during the 2023 California storm.