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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Peters is a former environmental attorney who represents California’s 52nd Congressional District, which includes San Diego, Poway and Coronado. He lives in Bird Rock. California’s majestic sequoia ...

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 ...

“I and my colleagues are getting really tired of the type of activism that pretends to be science ... ” The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park was threatening the park’s fabled ...

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, ...