SIERRA NEVADA, Calif. — Giant sequoia trees have been able to withstand centuries of wildfires, evolving over thousands of years to co-exist. People from around the world travel to California's Sierra ...

With a natural range limited to a few stretches of forest in California, the giant sequoia is known for one feature above all ...

Lichenologist Rikke Reese Naesborg begins to climb the General Sherman tree to perform a wellness check in Sequoia National Park. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) Roughly around the time of the Han ...

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 ...

Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. The past few years had been particularly rough for ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’s No. 2 biggest tree has been ...

FRESNO, California (AP) — In a story Dec. 3 about the world’s second largest tree, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the diameter of The President sequoia tree is 93 feet. That is the ...

Standing at the trailhead parking lot in one of the world’s largest giant sequoia groves, everything seems eerily normal. In this particular nook of Redwood Mountain Grove, scorched evidence is barely ...

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 beetles. The climbers descended the towering ...

Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, adding to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said ...

DETROIT - A forest of reborn ancient giant sequoia trees will soon be planted in a Detroit neighborhood that has come together to support it. Arboretum Detroit, which owns and manages a system of ...