Firefighters are battling to save groves of ancient trees that have lived for millennia.
The Windy Fire burns in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest, California, on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. undreds of firefighters are scrambling to protect the old-growth groves in Sequoia National Forest and Sequoia National Park in California, home to some of the world’s oldest and largest trees.
A firefighter battles the Windy Fire burning in the Trail of 100 Giants grove of Sequoia National Forest, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. On Friday, the National Park Service said the fires had reached the western edge of the Giant Forest, where flames scorched the “Four Guardsmen” sequoias that stand sentry on Generals Highway at the entrance to the grove.
Firefighters spray water as the Windy Fire burns in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. In recent days, park rangers have been wrapping protective foil blankets around the bases of some of the largest trees in Sequoia National Park, including the oldest and most celebrated. Among them, the 2,700-year-old
“These trees are adaptive to fire, but not intense fire,” Steven Bekkerus, a public information officer for the KNP Complex, . “So we want to do everything that we can to protect these trees as well as all these historic cabins that are on the national park.”
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