Giant Sequoias

KVPR tours the path of the Garnet Fire – where crews raced to save giant sequoias.

A spokesperson for the Garnet Fire burning in Fresno County, says wildland firefighters with tree-climbing expertise who are known as “smokejumpers” were dispatched to the area to try and put out the fire burning in the canopies of the beloved trees.

A folk singer from the hills above Fresno has an answer to a set of questions shaking California to its core.

New technology, from the world's largest log flume to dynamite, helped fuel the destruction of these ancient trees.

Detroit is the pilot city for the Giant Sequoia Filter Forest. The nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has donated sequoia saplings that were planted Tuesday by Arboretum Detroit to mark Earth Day.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park officials held a virtual meeting Thursday to discuss the impacts and history of fire in the forests.

Four people seriously injured Thursday afternoon when they were struck by a falling tree were released from the hospital Friday morning. Sequoia and Kings…

Fire crews are starting to gain ground on wildfires burning in Sequoia National Park and Sequoia National Forest. But the effects are still being felt as…

Gov. Newsom signed a $15 billion climate change package Thursday, the largest investment of its kind in the state’s history. He signed the bill in Three…

Temperatures are on the rise, wild flowers are in bloom, and many are feeling pulled to the great outdoors. Among them is Leigh Bernacchi, a researcher at…