The California wildfire may have killed hundreds of historic sequoias
The base of the General Sherman tree, one of the largest trees in the world by volume, wrapped withFifteen giant sequoia groves in the parks have been burned by the blaze, including one with 5,000 trees, according to Christy Brigham, chief of resource management and science at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, theMore than 2,000 firefighters are working to stop the fire and 11% of it has been...
according to national fire trackerSequoia and Kings Canyon national parks are home to the General Sherman Tree, one of the largest trees by volume in the world, and several groves of giant sequoias, which are known to have a maximum lifespan of 3,400 years, according to theThe ongoing fire began on September 10 after a lightning storm struck, causing two fires that later merged and became the KNP Complex, according...
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