Sequoia Destruction News Today

But this is a tour of sequoia destruction. >> im not happy about 2,000 to 3,000 more dead large sequoias, thats a big number to me. >> reporter: thats 3 to 5% of the remaining large sequoias in the world according to a preliminary report in the national park service killed by the kmp fire that came through and the windy fire farther south. and that big number is on top of an even larger loss of sequoias last year in the castle fire. par of that wildfire eviscerating 10 to 14% of the worlds giant...

From aircraft into hard-to-reach groves. to ging swaddling some of the largest trees. >> we had hand crews doing raking and physical removal around individual trees and groves. we did backfire. >> reporter: but the loss of any sequoia, such rare and majestic beauties is one too hard to lose. >> it is that this tree is dead. it is not coming back. this tree that is at a minimum 1,000 years old and has survived many, many previous fires and should have lived another 1,000 to 2,000 years is dead, i...

Climate change . >> were on a hike in the sierra nevada mountains, but this is a tour of sequoia destruction. >> im not happy about 2,000 to 3,000 more dead large sequoias. its a big number to me. >> thats 3% to 5% of the remaining monarch sequoias in the world according to a preliminary report by the national park service, killed in the kmp complex fire that churned through sequoia and kings canyon national parks and the windy fire further south. that big number is on top of an even larger loss...