If you want to explore life before humans, this area near Colorado Springs is filled with fossils and will transport you to ...

Standing at the trailhead parking lot in one of the world’s largest giant sequoia groves, everything seems eerily normal. In this particular nook of Redwood Mountain Grove, scorched evidence is ...

Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California. The estimate released Friday, Nov. 19, ...

Just two months ago, the largest tree in Olympia was believed to be one that kids on the west side call the Garfield cat tree. From the nearby school playground the coast redwood’s split crown ...

Extreme wildfires have destroyed about one-fifth of all giant sequoia trees. To safeguard their future, the National Park Service is planting seedlings that could better survive a hotter climate.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews moved to ramp up the battle Wednesday against two expanding forest fires threatening Sequoia National Park’s giant sequoia trees and infrastructure.

Giant sequoias badly burned in Calaveras County 02:18. CALAVERAS COUNTY — A pair of iconic Calaveras County giant sequoia trees in Big Trees State Park are badly burned after they became ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world's No. 2 biggest tree has been ...

Officials battling the Rough Fire demonstrate how fire helps Giant Sequoia trees spread their seeds on the forest floor. 24/7 Live Fresno County North Valley South Valley Foothills/Sierra.

Two beloved giant sequoias scorched in a prescribed burn at Calaveras Big Trees State Park last year now appear likely to recover. The damage to the ancient trees — named the Orphans — had ...

On a late autumn day, a team of forestry workers spreads out among the burned trunks of giant sequoia trees. The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme ...