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Firefighters say decades of prescribed fire – highly controlled burns overseen by professionals – helped save the world’s largest tree, General Sherman, from a raging California wildfire. Sequoias ...

Largest tree by volume on earth. More pristine Sierra wilderness that in Yosemite National Park. Second deepest river gorge ...

Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park is reopening for guided tours after a four-year closure due to natural disasters. The cave, formed in 200 million-year-old marble, features unique geological ...

Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia National Park, and it’s celebrating its 135th year on Sept. 25. Here’s a ...

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People all over the world watched with rapt attention in 2021 as a wildfire threatened to engulf the world’s largest tree. Firefighters carefully wrapped the base of the General Sherman Tree in shiny, ...

The giant sequoias have been living in the Western U.S. for thousands of years. Nestled on the Western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range live isolated patches of some of the world's oldest and ...

The search for a California backpacker who went missing in Sequoia National Park this weekend has come to a happy close. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks' Facebook page posted an update late ...

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California’s Sequoia National Park, authorities said. The Four Guardsmen, ...