“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 giant sequoia trees. These most massive of ...

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 ...

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Roots run deep on the corner of Acequia Avenue and Locust Street in Downtown Visalia. The City's historic Sequoia Legacy Tree has been around for nearly a century. The tree ...

On Sunday night and into Monday morning, when the north side of the 55,000-acre blaze in the mountains east of Fresno exploded in a 10,000-acre run, it launched embers across a valley into ...

Firefighters in Central California have been working to protect a grove of giant sequoia trees from a massive wildfire.

California is home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia. Standing under these massive organisms, you can’t help ...

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 ...

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 of ...

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?

The time has come to remove Visalia’s beloved Sequoia Legacy Tree. Planted in 1936 as a tribute to Sequoia National Park, the tree has been sick for years, as some community members have noted. Before ...

To see a mighty sequoia tree, you usually have to travel to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. Now ...