In a Sierra Nevada canyon all but incinerated in the 2021 KNP Complex fire, a new forest of California's beloved giant ...

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).

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Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia National Park, and it’s celebrating its 135th year on Sept. 25. Here’s a ...

SACRAMENTO — Wildfires were once seen as the downfall of the treasured giant sequoia trees in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, but a team of researchers with the John Muir Project released a ...