SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. — The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a hoedad, dropped in a delicate sequoia seedling and tamped the dirt tight around it. As he moved on to the next spot, and then the next, ...

To stand at the base of a giant sequoia tree is remarkable and humbling — an experience few get because of the trees’ remote location. Anyone lucky enough to be in the Bay Area is about a three-hour ...

Sequoia National Park, California — 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.

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. On a late autumn day, a team of ...

While Manistee’s giant sequoia is the largest one east of the Rocky Mountains, it’s much smaller than its Californian ...

Giant sequoia groves in California’s Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks that were extensively burned in the megafires of 2020 and 2021 produced numbers of seedlings that were so “drastically low” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...