‘Running out of options’: Fight to protect giant sequoias has gotten experimental
LA TimesFirefighter Lindsay Freitag sprays water on sequoias on the Trail of 100 Giants to extinguish heat within the massive trees after they were singed in the Windy fire. As flames from the KNP Complex threatened to race up a steep slope toward the remote Muir Grove of giant sequoias, officials at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks had to think fast. Since igniting Sept. 9 amid a huge lightning storm, the KNP Complex and the nearby Windy fire — which is burning in Sequoia National Forest and the Tule River Indian Reservation — have charred more than 184,000 acres combined, including at least 26 groves of giant sequoias. The historic General Sherman Tree was saved from fires by structure wrap inside Sequoia National Park, “We’re admittedly in kind of a trial-and-error phase,” said Garrett Dickman, a botanist with Yosemite National Park assigned to the Windy fire. Farther north, Brigham said Wednesday that at least two groves — the Redwood Mountain Grove and the Castle Creek Grove in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks — “appear to have burned at least partially under high-severity fire” in the KNP Complex.
History of this topic
How two scorched giant sequoias kicked off a controversy about controlled burns in California
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US takes emergency action to save sequoias from wildfires
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US takes emergency action to save sequoias from wildfires
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Giant Forest to reopen months after fires threatened sequoias
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Editorial: Will tin foil save giant sequoias? Let’s hope so
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The bold firefighting strategies that saved some of the world’s largest sequoias
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Sequoia National Park’s General Sherman tree, one of largest in the world, still safe amid growing wildfire
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Sequoia National Park's Giant Trees At Risk As Wildfires Grow
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Fires shut Sequoia National Park, could threaten huge trees
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Wildfires rage in Sequoia National park and forest, sending flames into grove of giant trees
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As wildfires decimate the giant sequoia, California faces unprecedented loss
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