Making giant strides in giant sequoia protection
onThe Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition made great progress in 2024 restoring sequoia groves and safeguarding them from future wildfires.
Banned for 100 years, cultural burns could save sequoias
onOn a cloudless day in California’s Sierra Nevada, the Tule River Indian, North Fork Mono, and Tübatulabal Tribes gathered to lead a small cultural burning demonstration in the Alder Creek Grove. Since the California ban was lifted in 2022, only two off-reservation cultural burns have taken place in the giant sequoia range: The demonstration at Alder Creek Grove and an earlier burn led by the Tule River Indian Tribe on Forest Service land.