As part of the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy, the Sequoia National Forest uses prescribed fire tactics to reduce hazardous fuel loads in the forest. The forest wrapped up burning for ...

Firefighters in Sequoia National Forest continue to make significant progress on containing the Trout and Long fires, which were caused by a lightning storm on July 13. But they now have to contend ...

THREE RIVERS, Calif. — The ancient massive trees of Sequoia National Park’s famed Giant Forest were unscathed Tuesday even though a wildfire has been burning near them on the western side of ...

The decision authorizes a significant expansion of prescribed fire operations. For example, the Sierra National Forest, which ...

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Forest fires in California have led to the shutdown of Sequoia National Park with the landmark’s famous huge trees at risk of burning up. There are currently two fires (Colony and Paradise) burning ...

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DETROIT — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world's largest trees that ...