133 years following the creation of the Sequoia National Park, it can still be hard to believe just how colossal these mammoth trees are.
of harvesting such massive trees, could never compete with the loss caused by recent fires.
Flames from the KNP Complex Fire burn along a hillside above the Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park, California on Sept. 14, 2021. The blaze burned dangerously close to the Giant Forest, which is home to more than 2,000 giant sequoias. Fortunately, old-growth sequoias have an adaptation that helps make running crown fires "an uncommon occurrence" says Patterson. The canopy of monarch sequoias — the largest and most impressive trees — begins many stories off the ground. "That's not a coincidence" she said. "It's an evolutionary adaptation." And an adaptation allows giant sequoias to benefit from low- to moderate-intensity fires on the forest floor, far below the sequoia canopy.
Trees stand hundreds and thousands of feet tall in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in California. "Land managers in all places that have giant sequoias have really, really doubled down on fuel treatment efforts, whether that is thinning or prescribed burning," Patterson said. "There is a really, really serious effort on doing everything that we can to protect this species and the monarchs of the species, and take as many proactive actions as possible.
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