Giant sequoias, found only in California and primarily in the southern Sierra Nevada, need fire to reproduce. They’re especially adapted to “a certain type of fire — that being a low ...

Habitat: The giant sequoia is found for a distance of about 250 miles (402 kilomters) in central California at elevations of 4,000 to 8,000 feet (1,220 to 2,440 meters).

Two fires in 2017 killed more giant sequoias, serving as a warning for what was to come. “Then the Castle Fire happened and it was like, ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Brigham said.

Many are desperate to avoid a repeat of last year’s Castle fire, which wiped out 10% of the giant sequoia population in the Sierra Nevada. At least 7,500 trees burned in that blaze.

Between 2,200 and 3,600 adult sequoias were either killed by the KNP Complex and Windy Fires or are expected to die within the next five years – amounting to 3% to 5% of the Earth's sequoia ...

Last year's Castle Fire in and around Sequoia National Park is estimated to have killed as many as 10,600 giant sequoias, or 10% to 14% of the entire population.

Flames burn up a tree as part of the Windy Fire in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest, California, on Sept. 19, 2021. Northern California wildfires may have killed hundreds ...

Fire crews are battling to stop a growing California wildfire from destroying thousands of giant sequoias after harrowing photos emerged of flames burning up the trunk of one of them.

The fires are rapidly burning through steep and dangerous terrain and are projected to advance toward the Giant Forest, which is home to more than 2,000 sequoias, which can grow to 300 feet tall.

California wildfire may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias, burning through Earth's largest grove Joshua Yeager Visalia Times-Delta 0:00 ...

A National Park Service report estimated that two fires in September, sparked by a lighting storm, caused 2,261 to 3,637 mature giant sequoias — or between 3 to 5 percent of the population of ...

LOS ANGELES — Northern California wildfires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias as they swept through groves of the majestic monarchs in the Sierra Nevada, an official said Wednesday ...