A big-tree hunter who has been charting some of the largest trees in the West for more than a decade has added three in the Sierra Nevada mountains to the list of tallest sugar pines known to exist in the world. Michael W. Taylor recently documented two in the Tahoe National Forest west of Lake Tahoe in California nearly as tall as the length of a football field. At 267 feet, 6 inches and 267 feet, 1.8 inches, they are the second and third tallest sugar pines recorded, the Tahoe Daily Tribune reported. A third tree, found in the Stanislaus National Forest, checks in sixth on the all-time list at 253 feet, 2 inches. The largest of the three measures 10½ feet in diameter 4½ feet above the ground — a universal measurement known as diameter breadth height. … He doesn’t like to give the exact location of the trees out of fear that the public will “love them to death.”