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 barely ...

Nestled just a few miles north of Arnold, along Highway 4, Calaveras Big Trees State Park invites visitors to witness the majesty of giant sequoias. This park is renowned for its towering trees, ...

CALAVERAS COUNTY — A pair of iconic Calaveras County giant sequoia trees in Big Trees State Park are badly burned after they became engulfed in flames in what California State Parks says was a ...

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 ...

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 drawn ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire. Today in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees ...