Protecting California's Giant Sequoia Trees Among Wildfires
Newsy
The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks' leading expert on these trees explain why they're so important to try to save.
They're among the oldest and most giant living things on Earth – Sequoias. A national treasure under threat from an extreme fire – the KNP fire – which is why the U.S. Forest Service has taken extreme measures to save them. It's wrapping some of the most famous Sequoias.
"We also had sprinklers on here that were spraying water all the way to the top of this cat face, wetting down the wood," chief of resource management, Christy Brigham, said. "And then they raked back and moved the heavy fuels, the big logs away."
Brigham, the leading expert at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, is standing in front of the General Grant – the second largest tree in the world. The fire never reached it and it now appears to be out of the woods.
