But a few dozen of its neighbors have taken ill and died in recent years under threat from drought and bark beetle infestations, so on Tuesday the giant sequoia known as the General Sherman tree ...

“God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13% to 19% of all mature giant sequoia trees.

Only two other tree species in the world can live longer than the giant sequoia – bristlecone pines and Alerce trees. Sequoias are also giants in carbon capture, according to Sequoia Solution ...

generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the giant sequoia trees left in the world. But the Washburn fire burning now in Yosemite National Park, licking around the ...

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 ...

MANISTEE TOWNSHIP, MI – There’s a surprisingly large tree thriving Up North near the shore of Lake Michigan: A 75-year-old giant sequoia. The tree, planted in 1948 in Manistee Township ...

COPEMISH, MI – Giant sequoia trees in Michigan? Yes. And you might be able to have one. Northern Michigan is home to the largest known giant sequoia tree east of the Rocky Mountains. Planted in ...

Crystal Cave is over a million years old and stretches about three miles, he says. Only a small fraction of caves in the ...