Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest unscathed by wildfire
Source: AP
THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) The ancient massive trees of Sequoia National Parks famed Giant Forest were unscathed Tuesday even though a wildfire has been burning near them on the western side of Californias Sierra Nevada for nearly two weeks.
As of right now we dont have any damage to any of our trees, said fire information officer Mark Garrett.
The KNP Complex, two lightning-sparked fires that merged, has spread over more than 39 square miles (101 square kilometers), feeding on other types of trees that also live on the high-elevation slopes of the mountain range.
Giant Forest is home to about 2,000 sequoias, including the General Sherman Tree, which is considered the worlds largest by volume and is a must-see for visitors to the national park.
A firefighter hoses down hot spots around a sequoia tree in the Trail of 100 Giants of Sequoia National Forest, Calif., as the Windy Fire burns on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. According to firefighters, the tree sustained fire damage when the fire spotted into its crown. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/fires-environment-and-nature-forests-california-trees-17e4bbbf3537110ddf51b3a42ca26ec7
Pinback
(12,134 posts)Great work, fire crews.
Submariner
(12,485 posts)take your grandkids there for a visit, so they can tell their grandkids about the giant redwood stands of long ago that used to exist before we killed them off with our greed and willful ignorance.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)ffr
(22,649 posts)A little can go a long way.
burrowowl
(17,607 posts)happy feet
(856 posts)VGNonly
(7,431 posts)from the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite NP.
Breathtaking!
pazzyanne
(6,519 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,467 posts)Granted, I haven't been that many places, but Sequoia National Forest and the adjacent Kings Canyon are just magical.
So glad they survived so far.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)...life cycle of Sequoias.
niyad
(112,435 posts)Why is it called the General sherman? Strange name.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Gen. Sherman led a campaign that devastated the South.
Sherman Tank, too.
niyad
(112,435 posts)military.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)It's been changed once; no reason it can't be renamed:
The General Sherman was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.[5]
Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. Noting the pivotal role that Sherman had played in the Indian Wars and his forced relocation of native American tribes, they renamed the tree in honor of Karl Marx.[6] However, the community was disbanded in 1892, primarily as a result of the establishment of Sequoia National Park, and the tree reverted to its previous name.
In 1931, following comparisons with the nearby General Grant tree, General Sherman was identified as the largest tree in the world. One result of this process was that wood volume became widely accepted as the standard for establishing and comparing the size of different trees.[1][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman_(tree)
Rollo
(2,559 posts)It's a lot bigger than that one.
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)TYVM firefighters!!!!!
Red Mountain
(1,705 posts)in the Sequoia National Park. Not as common out west as in the east from the news report. Certainly a normal management tool in my area of central NC.
These trees need fire.....just not so hot it kills them.