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    The battle to save Earth’s largest tree from California’s wildfires

    Sep 20, 2021 3 minutes
    Monitor reporter Francine Kiefer and her husband, Mark Sheehan, pose for a snapshot in the Giant Forest at Sequoia National Park in California in 2011. Directly behind them is the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth, measuring 275 feet in height and 102 feet in circumference at the ground.

    My heart skipped a beat when I read last week that the KNP Complex fire in California’s Sierra Nevada was within a mile of the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park; just a mile from the park’s main attraction: ginormous, ancient sequoias that include the biggest tree on Earth – the General Sherman.

    Oh no! Like millions of people from around the world, I have enjoyed this spectacular park. Not as heavily visited as its majestic, granite cousin Yosemite to the north, Sequoia is all about the trees: craning your

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