US takes emergency action to protect sequoias from wildfires
The Forest Service will bypass an environmental review to speed up projects to clear underbrush to protect the world’s largest trees.
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The Forest Service will bypass an environmental review to speed up projects to clear underbrush to protect the world’s largest trees.
The Forest Service will bypass an environmental review to speed up projects to clear underbrush to protect the world’s largest trees.
Years ago, some people in the then-nascent United States thought sequoias were made up, a flora that existed only in fantasy.
The fire grew to 4,261 acres and was 23% contained, authorities said.
After two massive fires, a lush forest has been transformed into “sharp black fence posts pointing at the sky,” Photos from the Vault columnist David Middlecamp writes.