“Big Tree mania” set in, William Tweed writes in a 2016 history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to New York City. By 1855, a hotel had been ...

While Sequoia National Park may steal the show with its massive trees, Kings Canyon National Park, its "less-loved twin," quietly holds a more peaceful but equally impressive realm of towering ...

Planting of these fast-growing, carbon-eating seedlings, descendants of the Stagg and Waterfall trees, will begin this spring.

Rep. Vince Fong (R–Bakersfield) is pushing a bipartisan bill that would protect California’s Giant Sequoias. Fong and Rep. Scott Peters (D–La Jolla) have introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act to ...