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 ...

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 ...

Conservators applied solvent gel to the giant sequoia to draw the old varnish out The team then ... Tree rings are created under the bark as the organism grows taller and thicker. Experts can tell how ...

It had red-orange bark and clouds of sea-green needles ... “Big Tree mania” set in, William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to ...

I traveled to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks in the brief ... and they can grow to more than 300 feet­ — taller than a 26-story building. With their orange-hued bark, the giant sequoias stand ...

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring ...