A campground in the Sierras of California is probably one you don't know about yet, tucked into the pristine wilderness ...

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).

Turns out there are snowmelt-fed underground streams that flow through the cave and drain into the Kaweah River system, ...

The question of how to protect California's remaining giant sequoias, and how to manage America’s remaining forests in an era of climate-magnified megafires, has divided scientists and the public.

Giant sequoias, officially called Sequoiadendron giganteum, are the largest trees on Earth by volume. The biggest sequoia stands 275 feet tall, with a diameter of 36 feet at its base. Don’t ...

There are only about 75,000 giant sequoia trees in California, which are located in about 70 groves scattered along the western side of the Sierra Nevada. Know what’s up before you finish your cup.

Scientists hoped it was an anomaly. But sequoias, celebrated for using fire as part of their life cycle, kept dying. In 2020, the Castle fire swept through the Alder Creek Grove, which had many ...

On a hot afternoon in California's Sequoia National Park, Alexis Bernal squints up at the top of a 200-foot-tall tree. "That is what we would call a real giant sequoia monarch," she says. "It's ...

Between 1996 and 2020, wildfire burn areas in California grew five times larger than in the 25 years prior. ... If we truly care about giant sequoia forests, ...

Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California. The estimate released Friday, Nov. 19, ...

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.