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But this is a tour of sequoia destruction. >> i'm not happy about 2,000 to 3,000 more dead large sequoias, that's a big number to me. >> reporter: that's 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 world's giant population. brigham says, this means in the last two years up to a fifth of sequoias, trees tha...

Climate change resilient forests. >> reporter: it's a conflict of concerns these scientists never thought they would see. the threat made worse by another year of drought leaving the sequoias dry and vulnerable. >> that means its water source has been there for over 2,000 years. the fact that the water is not there means that the climate and the world around it has changed. >> reporter: but lessons learned last year helped save some sequoias this year. >> before the castle fire, we had never seen losses of large trees like we had in that fire. 7,500 to 10,600sequoias lost and willing to do to ...

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LOS ANGELES -- Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth's largest trees, officials said Friday.

An executive summary released by NPS forestry officials details the impacts of wildfires in 2020 and 2021 on California's giant sequoias.