SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. — The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a hoedad, dropped in a delicate sequoia seedling and tamped the dirt tight around it. As he moved on to the next spot, and then the next, ...

About a decade ago, my neighbor David Temprendola ordered 30 sequoia seeds (Sequoiadendron giganteum) from an internet site advertising “Sequoia Tree Seeds for Sale.” He carefully followed the basic ...

To stand at the base of a giant sequoia tree is remarkable and humbling — an experience few get because of the trees’ remote location. Anyone lucky enough to be in the Bay Area is about a three-hour ...

On a late autumn day, a team of forestry workers spreads out among the burned trunks of giant sequoia trees. The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme ...

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