Extreme wildfires have killed up to 20% of the world's mature giant sequoias since 2015, according to researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center (WERC).

A crew carrying hoe dags and bags of sequoia seedlings hike up a burned hillside in Alder Creek grove, in Sequoia Crest. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a ...

These days, it’s so easy to get caught up in a disaster mindset that you miss a miracle right in front of you. This thought struck me during my recent trip to forests in Sequoia and Kings Canyon ...

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 ...

Sequoia National Park officials hope to plant 12,000 giant sequoia seedlings in an area of the park that was severely damaged by the 2020 Castle Fire, part of the devastating SQF Complex that torched ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. Two monarch giant sequoias that are known as ...

SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. — The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a hoedad, dropped in a delicate sequoia seedling and tamped the dirt tight around it. As he moved on to the next ...

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