Standing in a giant sequoia grove is a bucket list experience. With their ruddy bark, buttressed trunks, and soaring branches, these 2,000-year-old trees exude a sense of timelessness that’s difficult to wrap your mind around. What is equally hard to …
The Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition made great progress in 2024 restoring sequoia groves and safeguarding them from future wildfires.
On 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.
