CAL FIRE Grants Helping to Restore Over 2,600 Acres of Sequoia Forests Burned by Six Wildfires in the Southern Sierra ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 2:23 p.m. in Humboldt County. Sequoia Fire has been burning on private land. Currently, ...

And fire crews have installed a sprinkler system to dampen the ground around the 209-foot-tall Grizzly Giant sequoia, with water from a small pool feeding sprinklers set up near the tree’s base ...

As my colleagues and I hiked through the Nelder giant sequoia grove south of Yosemite National Park recently, we could barely believe our eyes. In 2017, the Railroad fire swept through nearly all ...

The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme wildfire that raced through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. In the shadow of one of the trees ...

American Forests is restoring over 2,600 acres of sequoia forests in the Southern Sierra, thanks to a $4.9 million grant from ...

Iconic sequoia trees that tower over millions of captivated visitors at Yosemite National Park each year are under threat from a fast-moving fire. The fire quickly spread amid hot and dry weather ...

After an active holiday weekend that saw the Coffee Pot Fire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks grow from just under 7,000 acres to almost 12,000 acres, the fire has slowed significantly ...

Firefighters in the Sequoia National Forest have been focusing most of their attention on the Borel Fire, which has burned 59,389 acres in Kern County since it started on July 24. During its first ...

Joanna Nelson is director of science and conservation planning for Save the Redwoods League and an expert in forest, coastal and fire ecology. It was several weeks after the Windy Fire burned ...

As the drama plays out, the fire is being cited as an example of how other giant sequoia groves across the Sierra can be saved in an era of hotter, more intense fires made worse by climate change.

A fire gives them 3 things they need for regeneration. The first one is, it punches a hole in the forest - that allows there to be more light and more water for the sequoia seedlings. The second ...