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 ...

“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.

On a late autumn day, a team of forestry workers spreads out among the burned trunks of giant sequoia trees. The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme ...

As an adult, still enamored with the trees, I bought a mail order giant sequoia tree a few years ago, thinking I’d be the first guy on the block to have one of these titans growing in his yard.

But recent fires have killed thousands of mature trees and, in some cases, their seeds too." A majority of sequoias perished from three wildfires in 2020 and 2021, Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition ...

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 ...

with trees nearly 300 feet tall. Over 3,000 years - think of what a giant sequoia has seen. How many times did Native Americans sit at the base, have lunch, look up and marvel at the crown of a ...