General Sherman, the world s largest tree, is in the path of raging California wildfires, prompting a desperate effort to save it
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It s not easy to kill a giant sequoia â 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. Â
The Castle Fire is vivid evidence of an intensified modern Western fire regime â largely stoked by a warming climate and grossly mismanaged, overcrowded forests â that s capable of producing infernos that destroy even some of the most robust, fire-adapted trees.Â
How a smoking giant sequoia has burned since 2020
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On a long, recent trudge through forest burned in California s 2020 Castle Fire, a six-person survey crew peered at a curiosity in the distance. We saw a little tiny smudge of white and wondered if it was snow on a distant slope, said Nate Stephenson, a forest scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Upon closer inspection, it wasn t snow. It was smoke, coming from an iconic giant sequoia. It would put out puffs of smoke, recalled Stephenson, of the April 22 sighting.
The remote tree has smoldered (burning without flames) since fires torched sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in September 2020. The rare smolder is representative of the West s intensified modern fire regime: A potent combination of warming climes and vastly overgrown, mismanaged forests, among other factors, has left even the stalwart giants of the Sierra Nevada vulnerable to flames. They re the largest trees on