Yosemite Vs Sequoia: Overview. California is home to 9 national parks, each of which is beautiful in its own way, but Yosemite and Sequoia are two of the best.

Eight years before Yellowstone was established as America’s first national park, President Abraham Lincoln signed a document called the Yosemite Valley Grant Act in 1864. This act protected Northern ...

Sacred relics of Yosemite National Park, which houses over 500 mature sequoias in Mariposa Grove, are under threat from the Washburn Fire.

This photo provided by Yosemite National Park shows a fallen giant sequoia that came down during the Mono wind event on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 in Yosemite National Park.

Yosemite's fire management service said 545 firefighters were battling the blaze, including "proactively protecting" the grove -- the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite, with over 500 mature trees.

But now, a fire is threatening over 500 giant sequoias as it encircles Yosemite National Park’s Mariposa Grove. Advertisement Home to the famous “Grizzly Giant,” the grove is the largest in ...

Wildfire threatening Yosemite sequoias now affecting air quality in San Francisco Bay Area. The Washburn Fire has grown to more than 2,700 acres. By Julia Jacobo. July 11, 2022, 11:03 PM.

Yosemite wildfire forces evacuations 02:06. A wildfire threatening the largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park more than doubled in size in a day, and firefighters were working ...

Yosemite’s giant sequoias were saved by forest-thinning. Here’s why some want it stopped A firefighter protects a sequoia tree as the Washburn Fire burns in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National ...

Yosemite Conservancy President Frank Dean walks on a new boardwalk trail in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Yosemite National Park, Calif.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through ...