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Researchers determined that last August's Castle Fire destroyed between 7,500 and 10,000 of the massive trees,

At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year,...

More than 10 percent of the world´s giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada in 2020, according to scientists with the National Park Service.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — At least a tenth of the world's mature giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a…

It's not easy to kill a giant sequoia — the largest trees on Earth. Yet newly revealed National Park Service estimates found the September 2020 Castle Fire killed a whopping 10 to 14 percent of all large sequoias, meaning the blaze killed 7,500 to 10,600 of the iconic trees. "It was horrific," Nate Stephenson, a forest scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, previously told Mashable before the Park Service released a summary of the preliminary report on Thursday. "It killed lots and lots and lots of the big sequoias."  The Castle Fire is vivid evidence of an intensified modern Wes...