Lichenologist Rikke Reese Naesborg begins to climb the General Sherman tree to perform a wellness check in Sequoia National Park. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) Roughly around the time of the Han ...

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 ...

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Roots run deep on the corner of Acequia Avenue and Locust Street in Downtown Visalia. The City's historic Sequoia Legacy Tree has been around for nearly a century. The tree ...

With a natural range limited to a few stretches of forest in California, the giant sequoia is known for one feature above all ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’s No. 2 biggest tree has been ...

MANISTEE TOWNSHIP, MI – More than a dozen giant sequoia saplings are thriving near Michigan’s largest tree of this ancient species. These 15 little trees at Lake Bluff Farms are doing “really well,” ...

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 beetles. The climbers descended the towering ...

Standing at the trailhead parking lot in one of the world’s largest giant sequoia groves, everything seems eerily normal. In this particular nook of Redwood Mountain Grove, scorched evidence is barely ...

SIERRA NEVADA, Calif. — Giant sequoia trees have been able to withstand centuries of wildfires, evolving over thousands of years to co-exist. People from around the world travel to California's Sierra ...

DETROIT - A forest of reborn ancient giant sequoia trees will soon be planted in a Detroit neighborhood that has come together to support it. Arboretum Detroit, which owns and manages a system of ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — A group of artists and musicians in West Michigan are working together to preserve ancient giant sequoia trees. Starting Friday, they're hosting a music festival to help raise money ...