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....
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.
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...
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., ...
Photos show historically forested landscapes following uncharacteristically severe fires.AA heavily impacted dry mixed-conifer forest in the Cache La Poudre Wilderness in Colorado following the 2012 High Park Fire.BFire-killed giant sequoias in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park in California followin...
The evolution of cloud-to-earth lightning discharge consists of several stages. During the first stage, collision ionization begins in the zone where the electric field attains a critical value. The ionization is initiated by the free electrons that are always present in small quantities in the ai...
(Figure 3) but do not typically kill the trees. Thus, scarred trees can be used as a record of past fires by relating past scars to particulargrowth ringsin the tree. Such trees commonly provide fire records back to 200–300 years. In the giantsequoiaforests of Sequoia National Park in ...
(Synanthedon sequoia (Edwards)) (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)Gouty pitch midge (Cecidomyia piniinopis Osten Sacken) (Diptera: Cecidomyiadae) Tend to be localized although can have stand and regional upswings.Non-native invasives are the most threatening. Ebb and flow with weather, host conditions ...