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The alarming frequency of infernos that are larger, hotter and faster is imperiling the species — especially when it is compounded by a drought
Having scorched almost 86,000 acres since it was caused by lightning on Sept. 9, the KNP Complex Fire — formed by the Colony and the Paradise Fires — is tearing through the northwestern sector of California’s Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada, the only region where these trees dwell. The complex is just 11% contained.
The full extent of the damage from ongoing wildfires in California won't be known for months.
An official said that the KNP Complex Fire has burned into 15 of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks' giant sequoia groves.
One fire official calls the possibility that the monarchs in Northern California's Sierra Nevada sustained that extent of damage "heartbreaking."