Conservator Chelsea McKibbin took on the task. Chelsea's team looked closely at the sequoia to monitor and document any changes to its condition. Some parts of the tree slice, including the bark, had ...

Bark beetles have ravaged pine and fir forests ... It was the first time climbers had scaled the iconic 275-foot (85-meter) sequoia tree, which draws tourists from around the world to Sequoia ...

But researchers are growing more worried about bark beetles, which didn’t pose ... Scientists say they recently discovered about 40 sequoia trees that have died from beetle infestations, mostly ...

The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says, adapted for long winters in the Sierra. But it’s a fire tree too. Thick bark protects it from burning in lightning-caused fires, which open cones ...

There is only one Yosemite, one Sequoia and Kings Canyon. These places are too precious to be threatened by oil production.” ...

Ancient giant sequoia trees grow here, and on Monday morning, ancient words came forth in song, acknowledging the spirits of ...

The Mist Trail and surrounding routes, including Half Dome, the John Muir Trail and Happy Isles, constitute Yosemite's most ...

An artist’s view of Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks in the age ... The heat of forest fires causes the small cones to release even smaller seeds, and mature trees are protected by spongey bark, ...

Sparse ground cover means the threat of fire is greatly reduced, a danger further lessened by the relative paucity of dead bristlecone needles in a landscape where trees are few and far between.

It is named after the sequoia tree, which is a redwood that California is known for. macOS Sequoia, like iOS 18, is built around Apple Intelligence, which is what Apple calls its AI features.

leading to overtourism with some visitors even being bold enough to take a piece of tree bark from the forest as a souvenir. More than 800 people visited the sequoia forest last August on a daily ...

“We were so excited,” Boufford recalled. “We thought we were going to get a sycamore tree. So we were even more excited to get a giant sequoia tree. We don’t really have any in New York Stat ...