For those of us who have never seen a giant sequoia or redwood in person, walking up this huge tree is a bit of a shock. Even ...

SIERRA NEVADA, Calif. — Giant sequoia trees have been able to withstand centuries of wildfires, evolving over thousands of years to co-exist. People from around the world travel to California's Sierra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around-the-clock efforts are underway to protect giant Sequoias within the McKinley Grove that are being threatened by the raging ...

Along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada sit 530-acres of pristine forest, filled with red and white fir trees, ponderosa pines and—the stars of the landscape—hundreds of towering giant sequoia ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire. Wildland ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- The federal government's long-awaited plan for managing the health of the largest forest of giant sequoias on earth limits logging and emphasizes fire as the primary means to ...

DETROIT - A forest of reborn ancient giant sequoia trees will soon be planted in a Detroit neighborhood that has come together to support it. Arboretum Detroit, which owns and manages a system of ...

Dead and dying trees are threatening to fall in Sequoia National Forest and officials have closed the Trail of 100 Giants to keep visitors safe. The Fresno Bee reports that U.S. Forest Service ...

Rep. Vince Fong (R-Calif.) can’t shake the environmental fight over reducing wildfire threats in California’s sequoia groves. Rep. Vince Fong says Congress can save threatened giant sequoia trees ...

DETROIT — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit’s eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees that ...