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 ...

Lichenologist Rikke Reese Naesborg begins to climb the General Sherman tree to perform a wellness check in Sequoia National Park. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) Roughly around the time of the Han ...

Inside Look is a Fresno Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Even among trees within the Giant Forest at Sequoia and ...

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Roots run deep on the corner of Acequia Avenue and Locust Street in Downtown Visalia. The City's historic Sequoia Legacy Tree has been around for nearly a century. The tree ...

Researchers climbed General Sherman, the world's largest tree, for the first time ever and gave it a clean bill of health. The researchers were looking for bark beetles, which have become more ...

Standing at the trailhead parking lot in one of the world’s largest giant sequoia groves, everything seems eerily normal. In this particular nook of Redwood Mountain Grove, scorched evidence is barely ...

FRESNO, California (AP) — In a story Dec. 3 about the world’s second largest tree, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the diameter of The President sequoia tree is 93 feet. That is the ...

California is home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia. Standing under these massive organisms, you can’t help but be filled with wonder at how something can be so old and so enormous, ...

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 ...

FRESNO, Calif. - Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world's No. 2 biggest tree has been supplanted ...

The idea that human beings could plant trees that grow more than 300 feet tall and live for 3,000 years sounds far fetched. Nature does that sorta stuff, not us. Unfortunately, things have reached a ...