The time has come to remove Visalia’s beloved Sequoia Legacy Tree. Planted in 1936 as a tribute to Sequoia National Park, the tree has been sick for years, as some community members have noted. Before ...

Visalia is known as the Gateway to the Sequoias. In 2018, as a way to give visitors a sampling of Visalia’s connection to the national park, Visit Visalia with the help of many volunteers created the ...

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Roots run deep on the corner of Acequia Avenue and Locust Street in Downtown Visalia. The City's historic Sequoia Legacy Tree has been around for nearly a century. The tree ...

Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. The past few years had been particularly rough for ...

Researchers climbed General Sherman, the world's largest tree, for the first time ever and gave it a clean bill of health. The researchers were looking for bark beetles, which have become more ...

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Almost everything about a sequoia tree is giant: It can grow to more than 200 feet tall and live longer than 3,000 years. Yet the sequoia’s footprint is shrinking, as human-induced climate change ...

The entire Sequoia National Park was shut down as the park and the largest tree on Earth was threatened by two wildfires burning in California's Sierra Nevada area on Tuesday. Both fires were ...

A tree in California's Sequoia National Park is still smoldering months after a disastrous wildfire. The tree is still burning from the Castle Fire which tore through the region in August 2020. Embers ...

Almost everything about a sequoia tree is giant: It can grow to more than 200 feet tall and live longer than 3,000 years. Yet the sequoia’s footprint is shrinking, as human-induced climate change ...