Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13% to 19% of all mature ...

Thousands of giant sequoia seedlings sprouted after a fire swept a grove in the Sierra in 2021. Will they replace the behemoths that died or become extinct?

A firefighter clears loose brush from around a Sequoia tree in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., in this July 2022 photo provided by the National Park Service. (Garrett Dickman/NPS via ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias: bark ...

Who could argue against protecting California’s’ majestic millennia-old sequoia trees, the oldest and biggest on Earth, from destructive fires and infestations exacerbated by drought conditions?

On a late autumn day, a team of forestry workers spreads out among the burned trunks of giant sequoia trees. The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme ...

California is home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia. Standing under these massive organisms, you can’t help but be filled with wonder at how something can be so old and so enormous, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. California (AP) — High in the evergreen ...