The majestic redwood tree is one of the top things to see in California. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks protect some of the largest trees in the world.

The first time I saw one of the largest trees on Earth was by accident. I took a southern route from the East Coast to Lake Tahoe, stopping for an afternoon in Yosemite's Mariposa Grove. Without ...

There is no more iconic tree or more closely watched forest ecosystem than coast redwood. With its limited range and high value, the coast redwood forest is a microcosm of many of the emerging science ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — ...

People all over the world watched with rapt attention in 2021 as a wildfire threatened to engulf the world’s largest tree. Firefighters carefully wrapped the base of the General Sherman Tree in shiny, ...

Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia National Park, and it’s celebrating its 135th year on Sept. 25. Here’s a ...

Inside Look is a Fresno Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Even among trees within the Giant Forest at Sequoia and ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias: bark ...