Three Sequoia National ... stated a Borel Fire spokesman in a U.S. Forest Service incident update. Prange added that other personnel “from Colorado, Minnesota, New York, you name it” have ...

The Buck Rock Fire Lookout is located at 8,500 feet elevation and has been a vital tool for spotting smoke and battling wildfires in the forest and nearby national parks since 1923.

The Forest Service said warmer temperatures and lower humidity are influencing fire management. Soft closures are in effect, but Sequoia National Forest visitors will only be affected within the ...

The lodge was in the community of Ponderosa, near the Trail of 100 Giants in Sequoia National Forest east ... during the fire season and they had been unable to get a new policy in place.

In contrast, thousands of large sequoias were killed in 2020's Castle Fire in Sequoia National Forest and in blazes ... review after intentional fires in New Mexico got out of control and sparked ...

“I arrived to the Sequoia National Forest in 2013 as a district ranger ... recreation and livestock and timber uses.” Watson said the new fire regime negatively impacted habitat for ...

But these new, more intense ... and an expert in forest, coastal and fire ecology. It was several weeks after the Windy Fire burned through many of California’s giant sequoia groves in September ...

A wildfire in California’s Yosemite National Park still threatens the famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees ... Robert Garcia, the US Forest Service’s fire chief for the Angeles National ...