These trees ended up across the pond when early European explorers took a liking to them. When Augustus T. Dowd stumbled upon what is now known as the North Grove of giant sequoias at Calaveras in ...

As an adult, still enamored with the trees, I bought a mail order giant sequoia tree a few years ago, thinking I’d be the first guy on the block to have one of these titans growing in his yard.

In the early 1900s, the U.S. Forest Service realized the resilient nature of the sequoias, and they began considering them as a robust alternative to trees in other California climates.

Turns out there are snowmelt-fed underground streams that flow through the cave and drain into the Kaweah River system, ...

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.

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.

With the various plantings, and the campaign in the 1970s to revegetate Southern California’s mountain forests with giant sequoia, it’s likely there are many more individual trees and groves ...

With the various plantings, and the campaign in the 1970s to revegetate Southern California’s mountain forests with giant sequoia, it’s likely there are many more individual trees and groves ...

As a child, my parents took me to see General Sherman, the tree in Sequoia National Park, and I became awestricken by the sheer size and magnificence of giant sequoias. As an adult, still enamored ...