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This is the new reality at Sequoia National Park, where wildfires have left an indelible mark. The story of this park isn’t ...
Nestled within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is a 2.8-mile (4.5 km) moderate hiking trail that offers an immersive experience in old-growth redwood forests. Starting ...
A Redwood-loving Researcher on Why Las Vegas Is Perfect for Studying the Limits of Trees Life Sciences professor Drew Peltier explores how trees grow, survive, and reproduce despite poor conditions — ...
Science Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves Two recent studies find that sequoia groves burned in megafires of 2020 and 2021 were so severely damaged that the world ...
Giant sequoias are the world’s largest trees and among the oldest. As climate allies, the old-growth sequoia groves are second only to old-growth coast redwood forests in storing massive amounts of ...
New buds are sprouting through the charred remains of California redwoods that burned in 2020, suggesting the trees are more resilient to wildfires than thought.
A recently published multi-year study conducted at Big Basin Redwoods State Park shows that long-stored carbon reserves and ancient, dormant buds within redwood trees allow the plants to recover ...