Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service announced a necessary emergency action to initiate fuels reduction treatments in the next 18 to 20 months to protect giant sequoia groves from immediate wildfire threats.
Volunteers plant giant sequoia seedlings in Sequoia Crest hit heavily by Castle Fire.
For millennia, one of the defining characteristics of giant sequoias has been their innate resilience to wildfire. But in the last several years, severe fires in the Sierra Nevada have revealed an unprecedented vulnerability in the groves. League staffers’ publication in a scientific journal is the first to document this new phenomenon.
Scientific American video surveys damage at Alder Creek
Fire crews use backburning to protect important values such as homes, giant sequoia groves, and infrastructure like the Sequoia National Parks headquarters during the KNP Complex fire.
Wildfires continue to threaten giant sequoia
Infographic shows why we’re losing giant sequoia to fire and how to prevent it
As the Windy Fire burns in Red Hill, the League needs supporters to champion prescribed burning and fire resilience work.
