Learn more about the 'no shortcut' rule before heading to California's Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks to avoid ...

A firefighter protects a sequoia tree as the Washburn Fire burns in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) ...

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, ...

They’re not. The giant sequoia and redwood are closely related but not the exact same kind of tree. The National Park Service explains a couple of the differences: . Habitat: The giant sequoia ...

As an adult, still enamored with the trees, I bought a mail order giant sequoia tree a few years ago, thinking I’d be the first guy on the block to have one of these titans growing in his yard.

A giant sequoia tree fell in the Mariposa Grove at Yosemite National Park during a wind storm on Jan. 18 and 19, 2021, one of at least 15 mature sequoias that toppled.

Sequoia National Park officials say lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California. Noah Berger | AP file ...

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, ...

As an adult, still enamored with the trees, I bought a mail order giant sequoia tree a few years ago, thinking I’d be the first guy on the block to have one of these titans growing in his yard.

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. May 27, 2025. contribute now.

I bought my young giant sequoia from Welker’s Grove Nursery, in the Sierra Nevada, near Shaver Lake. Sadly, the nursery was badly damaged by the 2020 Creek Fire and it is not selling trees at ...