Fire and man in Sequoia National Park - Vankat - 1977 () Citation Context ...were human-caused and probably related to grazing. Many reports from the period allude to shepherds burning areas in the fall as they left the mountains to improve grazing conditions (Barrett 1935 in =-=Vankat ...
A giant sequoia that has been scarred from the Windy Fire in Sequoia National Forest, California, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. California wildfires have killed up to one-fifth of the worlds total population of giant sequoias in the past two years Expand SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif...
The Colony Fire, one of two burning in Sequoia National Park, was expected to reach the Giant Forest, a grove of 2,000 sequoias, at some point within days, fire officials said. However, the fire did not grow significantly on Thursday as a layer of smoke reduced its spread in the morni...
Authorities say four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California’s Sequoia National Park.
Nesmith, J. C. B., Das, A. J., Hara, K. L. O. & Mantgem, P. J. V. The influence of prefire tree growth and crown condition on postfire mortality of sugar pine following prescribed fire in Sequoia National Park.919, 910–919 (2015). ...
SQNF = Sequoia National Forest. SNF = Sierra National Forest. YNP = Yosemite National Park Full size image Conclusions This study supports the hypothesis that frequent, low-intensity TEK fires contributed to the pre-suppression conditions of open forests prior to the 1850s C.E., ...
12,3,4. The societal and ecological impacts of fires5,6are in our collective consciousness—from Australia’s 2019–2020 megafires7, to destructive wildfires in the Mediterranean8, to beloved giant sequoias killed by fire in California98,10,11,12,13,14. We understand the broad drivers of in...
Regions with large, contiguous areas of likely restorative effects under both weather scenarios were observed primarily in Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and the upper elevation regions of several National Forests (Eldorado National Forest in particular). In Yosemite and Sequoia National...