Wildfires kill thousands of sequoias in southern Sierra Nevada
by Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times
Nov 19, 2021
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — As many as 3,600 large giant sequoias perished in the flames of twin wildfires that ignited during a lightning storm in mid-September and rampaged through 27 groves of the behemoths in the southern Sierra Nevada, officials said during a media briefing Friday.
More than two dozen groves of the towering trees were scorched as the KNP Complex and Windy fires exploded through parched vegetation, exacerbated at times by fierce winds and thunderstorms.
The somber news was delivered in the Grant Grove of Kings Canyon National Park, in the shadow of the General
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