Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Yosemite National Park’s iconic giant sequoia trees — a symbol of conservation and a major tourist attraction in the Golden State — went up in flames on ...

To save giant sequoias in Yosemite, ... arborists have climbed up the giant trees to check for embers or to lop ... which burned through more than 1,700 acres in the Giant Sequoia National ...

Many of the best-known stands of giant sequoias grow more than 6,000 feet above sea level in three national parks — Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite. A visit to these immense trees typically ...

Yosemite’s giant sequoias were saved by forest-thinning. Here’s why some want it stopped. ... away from Mariposa Grove — a stand of more than 500 giant sequoia trees, ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people ordered evacuated nearby as a wildfire burning ...

But it has attracted national attention, in part because it's burning near Yosemite National Park's iconic giant sequoia trees. Firefighters have reported that the blaze is moving relatively ...

The Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees, one of the most popular and breathtaking landmarks in Yosemite National Park, reopened to the public Wednesday morning, nearly four weeks after a major ...

In July, the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park narrowly avoided disaster in the Washburn Fire due to quick action and long-term planning.

Firefighters have slowly but surely gained ground in the fight to protect Yosemite’s giant sequoias as flames have raced through Mariposa Grove, lapping at the legendary ancient trees.

The Calaveras giant sequoia trees were the first widely documented of their kind, celebrated long before the world knew about larger groves elsewhere in the Sierra. Eric Brooks Special to SFGATE ...

Yosemite’s giant sequoias were saved by forest-thinning. Here’s why some want it stopped. ... away from Mariposa Grove — a stand of more than 500 giant sequoia trees, ...