Castle Fire may have killed a tenth of the world's giant sequoia, a shocking new NPS study has found
Castle Fire may have killed a tenth of the world's giant sequoia, a shocking new NPS study has found What was once a lush forest is now a "moonscape." At least a tenth of the world's mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada late last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service and shared with the Visalia Times-Delta. The catastrophic discovery that forest managers called "mind-blowing" comes five months after firefighters contained the Castle Fire — which scorched 175,000 acres across...
Source: visaliatimesdelta.com